Andrew Kreps Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of works of paper by Oliver Lee Jackson, spanning the 1980s to the present, at the gallery’s 394 Broadway location.
Since the 1970s, drawing has been an integral part of Jackson’s practice as he freely incorporates watercolor, collage, charcoal, and printmaking techniques to create layered compositions. Drawing on a wide range of references, from music, dance, renaissance paintings to Jackson’s own studies of African cultures, the resulting works blend figurative forms with improvisational marks. Moving between legibility and abstraction, Jackson creates various points of entry within each work, seeking to open his work to a multitude of readings.
Oliver Lee Jackson lives and works in Oakland. Jackson was associated with the Black Artists Group, which was founded in St. Louis in 1968. In 2022, Jackson’s work was the subject of solo exhibitions at the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, and the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA. Other past institutional exhibitions of Jackson’s work include the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 2021-22, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2019, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 2012, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, 2002, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1985, University of California Art Museum, Berkeley, 1983, Seattle Art Museum, 1982, St. Louis Art Museum, 1980, among others. His works are held in the public collections of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Modern Art, New York, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Jose Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum, St. Louis Art Museum, Detroit Institute of the Arts, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco among others.
