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September Issue 2005
City Art in Columbia, SC, Offers Works by William G. Jackson
City Art in Columbia, SC, celebrates the beginning of the fall cultural season showing new paintings by William G. Jackson entitled Broken Stripe. This exhibit is Jackson's third solo exhibit at City Art. The show opens on Sept. 15 and continues through Oct. 29, 2005. Most of these painting are acrylic on unprimed canvas expanding the staining process of the Washington Color Painters. These canvases are of various sizes, some very large-scale.
Says Jackson, "My personal history is grounded in the early 1970's at Northern Virginia Community College, where I studied drawing and painting with Jean Auvil. The Washington Color Painters were a dominant force in the art world at the time. Auvil taught staining techniques on unprimed canvas, a method used by Helen Frankenthaler beginning in the late 1950's. The Washington Color Painters - Morris Louis, Kenneth Nolan, Gene Davis, Paul Reed, Howard Mehring, and Thomas Downing - explored the possibilities of the staining process, pushing it to new levels.
"Staining gives the canvas a glow and a depth with its matte finish that is not accomplished by other methods," says Jackson. "During the 1970's my work was representational and it was not until thirty-two years later that the seeds of abstraction and color, sown by Jean Auvil, germinated. Recently I have had the good fortune to establish a friendship with Paul Reed, a prominent member of the original Washington Color Painters movement. Paul still paints every day."
"I have never grown tired of looking at color," adds Jackson. "Its psychological impact stimulates the emotions consciously and unconsciously. In representational or abstract images, color is a unifying element.The use of color in painting has yet to find its end. Color continues to challenge and inspire me."
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