Biography: William Jackson

Lot's Wife, 1993/2003

Cast Bronze, 1/6

66 x 7 x 10 in

$14, 500

William G. (Bill) Jackson, Aiken, SC

William G. (Bill) Jackson (b. 1948) had his most recent museum exhibition, Degrees of Separation: From Figuration to Abstraction – Paintings by Philip Morsberger and William Jackson, at the Blanden Memorial Art Museum in Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 2005. He has shown at the Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum in LaGrange, GA, and the Columbia (SC) Museum of art, where two of his life-size welded horses were exhibited for six months. Jackson was represented in South Carolina Birds: A Fine Arts Exhibition, which traveled to four museums and galleries in South Carolina in 2004-2006. In 2005, he was the winner of Aiken, S.C.’s, first South Carolina Regional Sculpture competition, juried by Richard Hunt. 

Resume: William Jackson

Untitled, 2008

Mixed media

18 1/2 x 11 x 3 1/2 in.

$ 600

STUDIED

Northern Virginia College, studied with Jean Auvil
York, Pennsylvania, studied with Don Bridell

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Degrees of Separation: from Figuration to Abstraction, Paintings by Philip Morsberger and William Jackson, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
Broken Stripe, City Art, Columbia, SC 2005
South Carolina Regional Sculpture exhibit curated by Richard Hunt 2005, 1st Place
South Carolina Birds exhibit curated by Wim Roefs 2004
Art Exchange and Sculpture Garden, San Francisco 2002-2003
Solo Exhibit, City Art, Columbia, SC 2001
Solo Exhibit, Aiken Center for the Arts, Aiken, SC, 2000
Pop Art, the 60s, and Vietnam, Jackson Gallery, Aiken, SC 1999
Solo Exhibit, City Art, Columbia, SC 1996
Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, Chattahoochee, SC 1994
Solo Exhibit, Barry’s Gallery, Morgantown, WV 1994

Artist's Statement: William Jackson

“My personal history is grounded in the early 1970s at Northern Virginia Community College, where I studied drawing and painting with Jean Auvil. The Washington Color Painters were a dominant force in the art world. Auvil taught staining techniques on unprimed canvas, a method used by Helen Frankenthaler beginning in the late 1950s. The Washington Color painters - Morris Louis, Kenneth Nolan, Gene Davis, Paul Reed, Howard Mehring, and Thomas Downing - explored the possibilities of the staining processes, pushing it to new levels. 

Staining gives the canvas a glow and a depth with its matte finish that is not accomplished by other methods. During the 1970s my work was representational and it was not until thirty-two years later that the seeds of abstraction and color, sown by Jean Auvil, germinated. 

I have never grown tired of looking at color. Its psychological impact stimulates emotions consciously and unconsciously. The use of color in painting has yet to find its end. Color continues to challenge and inspire me.”