The artist's mid-career survey at Tufts University Art Galleries includes includes video, photographs and large paintings. Jackson's archival and in-person research provides an armature that she builds around materials like halftone line images, paper bags, voting ephemera and site specific soil and dust.
“Tomashi Jackson: Across The Universe” is on view at Tufts University Art Galleries through Dec. 8. ” at Tufts University Art Galleries is a video collage titled “Self Portrait: Tale of Two Michaels.” It practically glows as it's projected onto a gallery wall, beckoning the eye from the entrance.
“When I was a kid, my mother was a night courier and she'd put me in the back of the truck,” Jackson said. Her mother loved listening to artists like Steely Dan, Aretha Franklin and the Doobie Brothers. “I have a chemical reaction to some of these sounds from this period of time.” Jackson intertwines music with pieces throughout “Across The Universe.” It's a penchant of hers. With a taste influenced by those nights riding in the back of her mother’s truck, she said that music has become a container for her visual explorations. “It's something that I try over and over again. To let one popular song kind of poetically hold my complex emotions about our fate in the present.
“Time and Space” is finished with a coating that includes Athens marble dust, symbolizing the birthplace of American “democracy.” Soil from Lucy Depp Park, one of the few remaining preserved Underground Railroad sites in the country, gives the surface texture — but it also connects 1948 and 1965 with a past that archival images often didn’t capture.
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