ROXANNE JACKSON

"Roxanne Jackson's dark comedy of a candlestick, in which a black taper rises from the index finger of a glazed ceramic hand — make a strong case that art, as Oppenheim herself put it, 'has to do with spirit, not with decoration.'" THE NEW YORKER: “Fur Cup” at Underdonk Gallery by Andrea K. Scott

“Roxanne Jackson’s ‘Wild Mineral’…suggests the sawed-in-half skull of a dangerous, mythical creature…demonstrating what can happen when clay becomes a vessel for pure imagination.” THE NEW YORK TIMES: “What To See In New York Art Galleries This Week” on the exhibition “Clay Today” at The Hole by Jillian Steinhauer

"Jackson's works are resonant with the archetypes of Jung and Joseph Campbell…bearing multiple meanings and associations. [Her decapitated heads have] origins in tropes that have circulated throughout the history of sculpture and literature. Jackson updates this imagery, bringing the archaic into the apocalyptic consciousness of the 21st century.” SCULPTURE MAGAZINE: "Roxanne Jackson" by Kay Whitney

"Jackson’s ceramics tell stories of monsters, lovers, and debauchery. These are rituals and rites where the heat of both sex and violence burn. Animal entrails and ripe fruit glisten in the artist’s monumental Wicked Feast: a banquet table reminiscent of Renaissance wealth, abundant with decay and delicacies…As death then is rendered bloody, fibrous, and unavoidable through the clay’s marrow, we’re reminded not of our end but rather the radical possibilities of our day. Raise your glass and join the party.” CHICAGO READER: “Welcome to the Underworld” by Annette Lepique

"Jackson's ceramic works vibrate between the playful and the menacing. They abandon the dainty, feminized associations of craft for something more feral and alive, exploiting clay's malleability to create...beastly creatures whose beauty and monstrosity emerge in equal measure, mutating the shape of beauty itself." Max Lakin

“Roxanne Jackson’s ceramic sculptures are a world of animal personification and creature teachers, a weird cast of characters putting on a wild psychedelic play. Seductive, monstrous, humorous, punk, these works bat around dizzying ideas of what is beautiful and what is beastly, what is real and what is imagined, what is serious and what is simply, a joke.” Excerpt from the press release by Sarah Walko for Nature is A Whore: A Comedy & A Tragedy at The Hole, NYC. Read the full press release here.

“[Jackson’s] work awakens us to truly see the animal in ourselves, and it feels as if we have been split wide open with our inner secrets and innards laid out on pedestals on public display.” WHITEHOT MAGAZINE: “Roxanne Jackson’s Ceramics Personify the Duality in Us All” by Raina Mehler

"Roxanne Jackson’s latest exhibit Nature is a Whore: A Comedy & A Tragedy, an aptly titled show of dizzying and wild polarities...feels immediately bizarre and fantastical, featuring chicken feet, decapitated heads, sea shells, cakes, blood and other unexpected sculptures…[in] a layered, multivalent display of artistic prowess." Kelly Pau, COOL HUNTING,” Studio Visit: Ceramicist Roxanne Jackson — Exploring the Dizzying and Paradoxical Elements that Converge in the Artists’s Latest Show at NYC’s The Hole”

“Jackson is constantly chasing the mysterious. Casting spellbinding ingresses that bridge the chasm between the real and the quixotic. The abject nature of her pieces invites us to consider the symbiotic relationship we hold with nature, the mysterious, our psyches, our bodies and the supernatural. We acknowledge that both our mythologies and ourselves are in a constant state of flux, susceptible to metamorphosis.” METAL MAGAZINE: “Roxanne Jackson: The Vulnerable Beasts Tampering With Tradition” by Vanessa Murrell

“Jackson’s ladies are fierce, reclaiming their true nature. Their heads are in metamorphosis, exposed or shielded, unidentifiable and archetypal…the glazed clay cracks the veneer of pristine allure and reveals the inside-out, making the secret into public knowledge.” by Sagi Refael, Towson University, Center for the Arts Gallery, EX-tend EX-cess: Metamorphosis in Clay, exhibition catalog

“[Jackson’s] work channels a late nineties-early aughts riot grrl moment that delights in fem aestetics, kitsch, and guitar-heavy music…a brief glance at the ceramic centerpieces ooze femininity and power, reflecting the dominant strand of feminism at the time — women owning their sexual desire as a means of empowerment…[Her work is] loud, powerful and even a bit frightening.” Excerpt by Paddy Johnson, for the catalog essay for “SLAYER” an online exhibition at Flecker Gallery. View full SLAYER catalog HERE

"The most memorable candle holder we've come across in recent memory, this seven-foot-tall tour de force sees the wryly funny New York sculptor stack her signature amphoras adorned with severed witch parts and a funfetti cake, all crowned with an iridescent cockatoo." SURFACE MAGAZINE: “Our Favorite Moments at Design Miami 2022” by Ryan Waddoups

“Roxanne Jackson makes ceramic sculptures that are not what you’d expect — from King Kong-like paws to gargantuan nails, these new sculptures fuse together myth, shamanistic rituals, new age symbolism and pop culture, including candles, fun fur and charms. FORBES: “Roxanne Jackson’s Rock ‘n Roll Sculptures Signal A New Era For Ceramics” by Nadja Seyej