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Ronald Jackson paints portraits and figurative works to comment on the identity of African American people and their influence on the landscape of American society. New collages, oil, acrylic, fabric and paper have been added to the collection of works, opening a new realm of expression possibilities.
He combines a realist painting approach with nuances of folk-art impressions, having a subtle touch of exaggeration and personal interpretation. In his work, he seeks to create a sensibility, mood or emotion that would suggest or evoke a narrative of thought and reflection.
A self taught artist, Jackson’s pieces evolve from his life view of socio-cultural legacy and the voice that art gives to a culture. Jackson is a native of Arkansas, the youngest of eleven children born to a farmer and a small community social worker, and portions of his talk will relate to his consequential world view. “My mother is my example and hero in regards to bringing social change and justice,” Jackson notes. Just before her 90th birthday, she received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock for her works of activism and social change that she and his father brought to their community, Marvell, Arkansas, and she was featured in an article of the Nov 2012 edition of the National Geographic Magazine regarding the Arkansas Delta. He says that he hopes his artwork becomes “a catalyst to trigger self-discovery of value, beauty and significance among people of color.”
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