Images from 'Suzanne Jackson: Five Decades,' amazingly the first monograph on this painter of vibrant assemblages and champion of African American art.⠀ ⠀ Published on the occasion of the first full-career survey of the Savannah-based artist at @telfairmuseums this volume illuminates a career that spans more than 50 years, across painting, drawing, theatre, costume design, dance, printmaking and sculpture. The book presents a selection of artworks and explicates their relationships to identity, community, the natural world and the human body.⠀ ⠀ In addition to new photo documentation and archival images, the book includes essays that contextualize Jackson's practice through the lenses of ecowomanism, materiality, an ethics of care and African American retentions.⠀ ⠀ Five Decades complicates canonical and exclusionary narratives and timelines, opening up Jackson's work to new generations of artists, thinkers and doers to find inspiration in the singular contributions one person can make to collective culture.⠀ ⠀ Edited with text by Rachel Reese. Foreword by Betye Saar. Text by Aberjhani, Tiffany E. Barber, Melanee C. Harvey, Julia Elizabeth Neal.⠀ ⠀ Please order from your local independent #bookstorehero — many are reopening or offering curbside pickup! A list of #blackownedbookstores is here: https://manylink.co/@artbook⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ @suzannejackson7268 #suzannejackson⠀ @betyesaar @1official_aberjhani @tiffanyebarber @mel_c_harvey @jjeneal⠀ ⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/CC_vjcQJNLg/?igshid=uext4m7yvtox
