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artists
JACKSON KYLE PATTERSON
   
Jackson Patterson’s photography is both
traditional and contemporary, reflecting the shaded area between
conventional and modern practices. His works have evolved from the
emotional, intuitive response of looking-- to the intellectual aspect
of creating images. Existing in the space between these processes is
where Jackson often finds the most poetic images about nature, family
and what it is to be living in today’s world.
Jackson Patterson was born and raised in
Arizona where he developed an appreciation for both the beauty and
austerity of the desert and the lush diversity of nature. He is a
seasoned traveler whose artistic and personal curiosities have taken
him throughout the U.S., Mexico, South America and Europe but always,
he returns to the American West, and finds the expansive and diverse
scenery to be home. At an early age, the works of Edward Curtis,
Timothy O’Sullivan, Edward Weston, Carleton Watkins and other
photographers depicting the West inspired Jackson. Soon, his artistic
influence and appreciation came to value contemporary works and the
dualities often present in modern life.
Jackson’s latest work merges his photos of landscapes with his family
albums, attempting to collocate the medium of photography, 21st century
digital practices, with the personal. The results that come into focus
are new fantastical stories. Each blended piece possesses its own
original story while the viewer takes away another version that is his
or her own.
Jackson received an MFA from the San
Francisco Art Institute in 2009. He has been exhibiting his photographs
in Pennsylvania, Oregon, California and Arizona since 2000 at the
Morris Graves Museum of Art, the Pendleton Art Center, and the Diego
Rivera Gallery. His work is in various private collections and in the
Paul Sack Collection at the SFMOMA. Jackson currently resides and works
in San Francisco.
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