Eastern Wall, 2011
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Ethan Jackson is a visual artist working in optical installation, photographic media, and interactive video. Light, vision, image and imagination are the basis for projects that range across perceptual, spatial, documentary and experiential territory.
Current News:
Ethan is currently in residence at ART342 in Fort Collins, Colorado, a stay that will extend through August 19. The generous studio and living arrangements there will serve as home base for upcoming projects.
His current project is a large-scale optical installation at the Loveland Feed & Grain Building in Loveland, Colorado (pictured). The historic flour mill and grain elevator is approaching its 120th year and is poised for restoration through Artspace, a nonprofit developer of affordable creative space. Ethan’s work spreads multiple views of the eastern skyline and horizon over a 20 by 50 foot brick wall. Public events will be held starting with an opening on July 8th, 4:30 - 7:30 at Loveland Feed & Grain, 130 West 3rd Street, Loveland, Colorado 80537.
Recent Events:
Recent shows included Parenthesis, at Fort Collins Museum of Art , along with fellow Art342 artists, and at RedLine in Denver as part of the Month of Photography.
In March, Ethan presented work to the ISIS (Information Science and Information Studies) program at Duke University. In February, he spoke about his work and led a camera obscura workshop at Santa Fe Complex in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and in January, Ethan will spoke at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Arts and Technology Studies area.
Last fall, Ethan worked in Taos, New Mexico at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation.
In October and November 2010, he participated in the exhibition Light Drift at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, along with artist Scott Johnson. The show featured an optical project in the ‘Rotunda,’ a large round sun-room that originally served the Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society sanatorium.
In July and August 2010, he was Artist-in-Residence at the Marsh Billings Rockefeller National Historic Park in Woodstock, Vermont. There he installed a series of optical works in historic and contemporary buildings and working with the art collection of the park.
Ethan has taught recently at various institution including Williams College, Reed College, Willamette University, and Portland Community College.
Between those periods, he was Visiting Lecturer in Art at Williams College, where he completed the optical installation Mt Hope Meadow.
Acknowledgments:
Ethan Jackson’s work has been directly supported through ART342, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, the K2 Family Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission, the Regional Arts and Culture Council and the NAAU. Work has also been facilitated by the Corporation of Yaddo, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Ucross Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and Sam and Dusty Boynton.
