Spotlight Artist

Tomashi Jackson

Northeast
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Dajerria All Alone (Bolling v Sharpe (District of Columbia)) (McKinney Pool Party)

Colorful abstract textile artwork with layered fabrics and bold shapes hanging on a wall.

mixed media on cotton and canvas

Apartheid Blues II (Old Texas Courtroom)

Abstract mixed-media artwork with vibrant blue and red panels leaning against a textured wall.

Apartheid Blues II (Old Texas Courtroom)

Magnet School

Abstract collage with a partial face, blue and orange horizontal stripes, and a small photo strip.

Mixed media on canvas

Featured in New American Paintings1 / 3

Artist Statement

Tomashi Jackson is a painter whose work functions across disciplines. The work explores color and materiality as vehicles for complex narratives and as tools for the interrogation of humanist histories, past and present, embedded in the language of abstraction.

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Abstract portrait with colored horizontal stripes and a dark rectangular shape.

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