Hubert Jackson
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"Reliquary"Mixed medium, 32" x 42", 2014
Reliquary figures are created in West African societies to honor the spirits of those who have transitioned. Societal conditions in African-American communities are addressed by icons of today's entertainers who are presented here as kings drawing on the spirits of the ancestors. - H. Jackson |
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"American Saga"Mixed medium, 38" x 38", 2016
The story of America is expressed in the multi-ethnic faces of its people. - H. Jackson |
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"Spirits of Cow Ford"Acrylic/mixed media, 32”h x 32”w, 2015
As the Union Army retreated from the Cedar Mountain area in August of 1862, they were followed by slaves who saw this as an opportunity to escape their condition of bondage. Photographer Timothy O’Sullivan captured what is considered one of the few known images of slaves escaping to freedom across the Rappahannock River, a crossing known then as Cow Ford. - H. Jackson |
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"The Procession"Mixed medium, 28" x 22", 2016
"The Procession" represents the spirits of our ancestors proceeding through time. - H. Jackson |
Hubert Jackson
BIO
Born in Culpeper, Virginia, Hubert Jackson received his Master of Fine Arts from Howard University. Exhibited extensively, his work is in a number of collections including the U.S. Embassies in Gabon and Burundi. Jackson not only inspires but also educates viewers with his sculptural and colorist imagery. His visual compositions bespeak an adept balance between abstract and figurative, architecture and landscape, geometric and organic.
STATEMENT
My painting series, “Spirits of the Journey”, honors the memory of those who have come and gone but remain anonymous and unaccounted for through war, poverty, slavery or the passage of time. The focus of this series is not on the politics or the morality of the Civil War period in our history but rather on the innate dignity and worth of the individuals who lived and died and again became one with the earth – those whose spirits transcended the circumstances of their place in time.
Born in Culpeper, Virginia, Hubert Jackson received his Master of Fine Arts from Howard University. Exhibited extensively, his work is in a number of collections including the U.S. Embassies in Gabon and Burundi. Jackson not only inspires but also educates viewers with his sculptural and colorist imagery. His visual compositions bespeak an adept balance between abstract and figurative, architecture and landscape, geometric and organic.
STATEMENT
My painting series, “Spirits of the Journey”, honors the memory of those who have come and gone but remain anonymous and unaccounted for through war, poverty, slavery or the passage of time. The focus of this series is not on the politics or the morality of the Civil War period in our history but rather on the innate dignity and worth of the individuals who lived and died and again became one with the earth – those whose spirits transcended the circumstances of their place in time.
- Hubert Jackson
Colonial Beach, Virginia
Colonial Beach, Virginia
