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The Kienzle Art Foundation presents from Saturday, 3. May 2025 (Opening 2. May) Keep Looking: Works from 1978–2025, the first solo exhibition in Europe by Gerald Jackson (b. 1936, Chicago, USA). The exhibition is guest curated by Matthew Higgs, Director of White Columns—New York’s oldest alternative art space— where Jackson had a solo exhibition in 2021. Among the most mercurial artists of his generation, Jackson has, over the past seven decades, worked fluidly between painting, sculpture, assemblage, collage, drawing, fashion, music, poetry, and performance. Keep Looking, titled after the 1988 song by the British group Sade (one of Jackson’s favorites), is a focused survey of his work made from the late 1970s to the present.
After a stint in the U.S. Army, Jackson relocated in the early 1960s from his native Chicago to New York’s Lower East Side, where he would encounter and become a part of a community of vanguard artists and jazz musicians centered around Slugs’ Saloon (1964–72), a now-mythical jazz club on East 3rd Street where Sun Ra once held a Monday night residency. This intersection—of art, music, and life—continues to resonate throughout Jackson’s work. Having initially pursued studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and later at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, Jackson began to exhibit his own work …
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Image above: Gerald Jackson, o.T., 1988, Collage: Fotokopie, Farbstift, Graphit, 43 x 28 cm. © LeWitt Collection, Chester, Connecticut.
