ريتشارد جاكسون
理查德·杰克逊
РИЧАРД ДЖЕКСОН
リチャード·ジャクソン

Big Pig

source: artsynet

“I am more interested in the process than the finished work,” says California-based painter and performance artist Richard Jackson. “The work is evidence of a performance, a product of how I spend my time.” Though trained as an engineer, since the 1960s Jackson has created experimental, theatrical, and extreme works inspired by such seminal painters as Jackson Pollock and Jasper Johns. Early in his career, Jackson favored site-specific murals and temporary installations; on more than one occasion he installed a paint-drenched maze inside of a gallery. His later work has incorporated mechanical items such as washing machines and cars. Throughout his career, Jackson has had a penchant for visual jokes, as in his 2011 performance Accidents in Abstract Painting, in which he flew a paint-filled model military plane into a wall.
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source: touchlatimes

Since the 1970s, Richard Jackson has been working in the intersection between sculpture and painting. These days he is building machines for making paintings.
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source: hauserwirth

Born in Sacramento CA, 1939

Studied Art and Engineering at Sacramento State College, Sacramento CA, 1959 – 1961
Moved to Los Angeles CA, 1968
Lived and worked in Pasadena CA, 1969 – 1993
Taught Sculpture and New Forms at UCLA, Los Angeles CA, 1989 – 1994

Lives and works in Sierra Madre CA
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source: moussemagazineit

Since the early 1970s, Richard Jackson has expanded the definition and practice of painting more than any other contemporary figure. Beginning with his large scale site-specific wall paintings and room-size painted environments, and continuing with his monumental stacked canvases and more recent anthropomorphic painting “machines”, Jackson’s wildly inventive, exuberant, and irreverent take on Action Painting has dramatically extended its performative dimensions, merged it with sculpture, and repositioned it as an art of everyday experience rather than one of heroic myth.