Llarona 2024; Ceramic, glaze, silver leaf; 25.5H x 16W x 6D inches
New Women's Work ~ Reimagining 'Feminine Craft in Contemporary Art
New Women's Work ~ Reimagining 'Feminine Craft in Contemporary Art
by Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy, pulbished by Smith Street Books
October 2024
“Jackson conjures a universe of opulent fantasy by reimagining well-known magical or shape-shifting mythical creatures…She combines these figures with flora and fauna in an ongoing exploration of transformation and the cyclical nature of life…[She] may have traded a life in the outdoors for one inside the studio, but through her sculptures, she is still running with the wolves.” Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy
DWELL, "The State of the Union: R & Company’s 'Objects USA' Exhibition Rises Above the Fray"
“Here’s everything Dwell’s editor-in-chief liked best in the show—including ceramic towers that tell wild fables and a molten porcelain mirror.”
by William Hanley
November 27, 2024
R & Company: "Objects USA: 2024" Exhibition, September 6, 2024 - January 9, 2025. New York, NY
R & Company’s landmark triennial exhibition and accompanying publication, Objects: USA, returns in 2024, featuring 55 makers from across the United States whose works blur the traditionally understood boundaries of art, design, and craft. The book includes a preface by R & Company principals Evan Snyderman and Zesty Meyers, an introduction by curator Glenn Adamson, an essay by the authors, and richly illustrated profiles for each of the featured artists. More info / order catalog HERE.
Sargent's Daughters: "Picnic at Hanging Rock: Chapter 1" Exhibition, June 1 - July 20, 2024. Los Angeles, CA
She Let Out a Sort of Smothered Scream, More Like a Wild Animal Than a Human Being 2024. Ceramic, glaze, luster, epoxy; 22H x 13W x 13D inches. Link to exhibition HERE
Arter Museum: "Suppose You Are Not" Exhibition, January 19 - December 29, 2024. Istanbul, Turkey
“…from the Ömer Koç Collection, Suppose You Are Not is concerned with finding worldly ways to rise upwards in the world where everything falls and keeps falling, and with providing possibilities to formulate infinitude where finitude is the rule…[this collection] not only tells us of human pleasures, desires, aspirations and dreams of past lives; it also reflects the spirited viewpoint of the collector. Suppose You Are Not delves into the passionate striving to collect and preserve the traces of humanity, the good and the evil, the ephemeral gestures, states, allusions and movements ranging from the most sublime to the most mundane, from the most permanent to the most ephemeral, which manage to persist by being conveyed from the dead to the living.” Arter Museum.
Link to exhibition HERE.
Clay in Color, "Following Your Guts with Roxanne Jackson"
Clay in Color, "Following Your Guts with Roxanne Jackson"
an interview with Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy and Alex Anderson
January 10, 2024
“Roxanne Jackson…creates fantastical sculptures that combine beauty and horror. In our interview, she talks about…her fascination with sci-fi and horror imagery as a way of reconnecting with nature, and her background as a river guide. We also discuss her fruitful time alone in her new home during the COVID-19 pandemic, seeing ceramics as minerals and drawing from global mythology and lore. Furthermore, she talks about her engagement with taboo imagery, specifically guts, as a symbol of connectivity and of digesting trauma.” Clay in Color
HYPERALLERGIC, "What Does 100K Get You at the Armory Show"
HYPERALLERGIC, "What Does 100K Get You at the Armory Show" by Aaron Short
The Armory Show with Night Gallery
September 8, 2023
“A visit to Los Angeles’s Night Gallery may have solved our non-existent dilemma. Roxanne Jackson’s three-piece ceramic sculpture of a fire-breathing aquatic creature, complete with a mermaid hitching a ride, spooked visitors.”
CHICAGO READER, "Welcome to the Underworld"
“In Jackson’s underworld, pleasures and pains are here to stay, the heat of the kiln solidifies even death.”
Candle Holders for the Underworld / Solo Show in Chicago
Candle Holders for the Underworld, Exhibition Dates: July 21 - September 2, 2023, Opening Reception: July 21, 5-8pm at Andrew Rafacz Gallery, 1749 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL.
“Roxanne Jackson’s Candle Holders for the Underworld…transports us to the nether regions of an alternate universe, transforming [the gallery] into a meeting place - deep within the psyche of wilderness. The air of heavy metal and stone is thick, beckoning you in for a closer look as shelf fungus protrudes from the gallery walls, presenting cake slices and an engorged clam…lime green toenails shoot out of Sasquatch logs and Medusa’s severed head rests shimmering in the dim light of a flame. Deep jewel and mineral toned glazes craze and slip over surfaces leading your gaze around the room to decipher the riotous symphony of objects.”
Museum Acquisition: Museum of Art and Design, NYC
Museum Acquisition
“Swimming with Dolphins” is now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Art and Design, NYC
Thank you Room 57 Gallery
Swimming With Dolphins 2021; Media: Ceramic, glaze, luster; 23.5 x 11 inches
SURFACE MAGAZINE, " Our Favorite Moments at Design Miami / 2022"
Surface Magazine, “Our Favorite Moments at Design Miami / 2022” by Ryan Waddoups
November 30, 2022
"‘Tropical Goth Candle’ Holder by Roxanne Jackson. 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.” Read the full review HERE
JUXTAPOZ MAGAZINE, "Yam Shalev and Roxanne Jackson Highlight Room 57's Booth @ Untitled, Miami"
Juxtapoz Magazine, “Yam Shalev and Roxanne Jackson Highlight Room 57’s Booth @ Untitled, Miami” by Madeline Rupert
November 30, 2022
"…a relic from the twisted world of Roxanne Jackson: a disembodied ceramic hand, candy colored green with 80’s memphis design squiggles, clutches a hotdog for dear life as its sinews pour out like ground beef through a meat grinder, adding a humorous-albeit-unsettling touch to the grander theme.” Read the full review HERE
WHITEHOT MAGAZINE, "Roxanne Jackson's Ceramics Personify the Duality in Us All"
Whitehot Magazine, “Roxanne Jackson’s Ceramics Personify the Duality in Us All” by Raina Mehler
November 28, 2022
"[Jackson’s] work suggests the duality in us, revealing what we try to conceal: vulnerability, gluttony, primal fear, repulsion, and desire…Her work awakens us to truly see the animal in ourselves…it feels as if we have been split wide open with our inner secrets and innards laid out on pedestals on public display.” Read the full review HERE
SCULPTURE MAGAZINE, “Roxanne Jackson”
"[Jackson’s] sculptures are brilliantly inventive: sinister, disturbing, and hilarious in the same moment. By asking how we can recalim monstrosity, Jackson’s work becomes an explosive combination…extracting and exploiting the tissues that bind the sexual and the grotesque.” Read the full review HERE.
The Art Career, "Roxanne Jackson: Beauty, Horror and Consciousness"
The Art Career, "Roxanne Jackson: Beauty, Horror and Consciousness"
an interview with Emily McElwreath
October 6, 2022
“The love of my life is my studio practice.”
Listen to this podcast HERE
ARTLYST, “Tribeca and Noho’s Best Exhibitions an Equinox Excursion October 2022”
Artlyst
“Tribeca and Noho’s Best Exhibitions an Equinox Excursion October 2022” by Ikla Skobie
September 25, 2022
"This wonderfully weird sculptural ceramics show centres on the classical amphora vase, now elevated and embellished with climbing creatures, chicken feet, chains, fungus and a proudly profiled cockatoo. Multilayered use of brilliant glazes creates glowing swathes of uninterrupted colour. The show can be viewed as Meissen energized by acid, a psychedelic cornucopia." LINK
Cool Hunting, “Studio Visit: Ceramicist Roxanne Jackson—Exploring the Dizzying and Paradoxical Elements that Converge in the Artist’s Latest Show at NYC’s The Hole”
Cool Hunting
“Studio Visit: Ceramicist Roxanne Jackson—Exploring the Dizzying and Paradoxical Elements that Converge in the Artist’s Latest Show at NYC’s The Hole” by Kelly Pau
September 8, 2022
"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."
Nature is a Whore: A Comedy & A Tragedy, Solo Exhibition at The Hole, New York, NY, September 7 - October 30, 2022
Nature is a Whore: A Comedy & A Tragedy / Solo Show at The Hole
Nature is a Whore: A Comedy & A Tragedy, Exhibition Dates: September 7 - October 30, 2022, Opening Reception: September 7, 6-8pm at The Hole, 312 Bowery, NYC.
”All of the work brings to mind the powerful words of Carmen Gimézes Smith in her poem Fragments From the Confessions, ‘Decoupage the jar with mouths, cut from Cosmo, mister death, fill it with our minstrel blood, or the placenta from our collective lacunae, grow lascivious magnolias in it, heavy lipped and lush with pollen, the jar houses my illusions, of eating men like hairballs.’” Excerpt from the press release by Sarah Walko
Antiques Magazine, The Curious Object Podcast: "Craft and the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
Antiques Magazine, The Curious Object Podcast: "Craft and the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
The amphora demonstrates what I am trying to do with ceramics, “which is to express and show dichotomies and polarities…[such as] low brow and high brow, the profane and the sacred, utility and absurdity…[The vessel form] is a departure point for these ideas.”
Listen to this panel discussion on the Curious Object Podcast HERE