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  in winter

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  stillness of
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The Elements exhibition, installation views
Kathryn Markel Fine Art, Chelsea, NYC
September 2007

The Elements installation view

The Elements installation view

The Elements installation view

The Elements

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts  press release excerpt: 

The Elements, presents a new body of work in which the artist's unique ability to carefully and meticulously create luminous environments is taken to greater depths - departing from abstracted interiors and focusing on light as the subject.

Julian Jackson returned to the natural world for inspiration for his latest series of paintings, to reengage with what has fascinated him his whole life: the light of the sun, and the play and infinite qualities of its light. Jackson's signature palette of reds and blues, referencing the summers sun and evening skies, have brightened with a keener appreciation for the worlds of brilliant colors that the sun reflects and refracts through nature. The artist's canvases have become cosmic spaces in which blurred globes of various shapes and sizes hover in radiant fields of red, orange and yellow. Jackson's work invites viewers to experience an abstract yet ethereal world of nature and celestial movement.

Jackson considers his new paintings as "a kind of internal weather slowed to stillness", the recreation of a ‘place' that viewers can enter as "one might a forest [and] revisit often, as one would a favorite mountain, tree, garden or building." Jackson's latest work, as described by Lilly Wei in a recent essay, is "the result of expert, elegant crafting and close observation of phenomena, the formal pleasures of these pitch-perfect paintings are many."

Polestar
Polestar
oil on canvas
74" x 64"
2007

Arc
Arc
oil on canvas
28" x 64"
2007

Cloudlight
Cloudlight II
oil on canvas
64" x 56"
2007

Ryoanji
Ryoanji
oil on canvas
65" x 117"
2007

Mistral
Mistral 1
oil on wood
42" x 38"
2008

Afterburn
Afterburn
oil on canvas
67" x 60"
2008

Solar
Solar
oil on wood
74" x 64"
2007

Drift
Drift
oil on canvas
67" x 60"
2008

Float
Float
oil on canvas
74" x 60"
2008

Constellation
Constellation
oil on canvas
78" x 60"
2008

Overture
Overture
oil on canvas
78" x 60"
2008

Flare
Flare
oil on canvas
74" x 64"
2007

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