Richard Jackson

Profile

Artworks

Exhibits

Network

Reviews

Comments

Painting Machines and Destructive Drives

by Jared Baxter
Richard Jackson at Armory Center for the Arts February 11th, 2012 - June 17th, 2012
Posted 3/31/12

Appropriately enough, the first thing one sees is Richard Jackson's signature. A series of miniscule points, scored into drywall with small pieces of lead in a presumably tool-intensive application process, form the cursive letters of the name, evoking a playful and dual irony. On the one hand, there's the use of industrial-strength equipment to reproduce the typically effortless and everyday act of signing one's name; on the other, the very hubris of the gesture is deflated by the white expanse... [more]