ALEX JACKSON: Earthgrazer
September 8 - October 21, 2023
Public reception: Friday, September 8, 5:30 – 8 pm
Steven Zevitas Gallery is pleased to present Earthgrazer, an exhibition of a new print folio by artist Alex Jackson. The suite of twelve intaglio prints constitute Jackson’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will be on view through October 21, 2023, with an opening reception on Friday, September 8th from 5:30 - 8 pm.
Earthgrazer marks Jackson’s first project-based engagement with the mediums of etching and engraving. Each print was drawn, etched, and printed by the artist in his studio. These prints isolate fragments from the artist's ongoing and narrative project, The Universe of E, an expansive universe taking place inside the body of a man who turned into a black hole.
The folio takes its title from a classification of meteor by the same name. Earthgrazers, a rare type of meteor, are identified by their brief entry into Earth’s atmosphere and immediate exit back into space. Much like this phenomenon, the folio features a constellation of characters suspended between a state of arrival and departure, emergence and disappearance, legibility and dissolution. The iterative nature of the intaglio print process mirrors this same state of flux, as the image exists simultaneously as a drawing, an incision, an object, and ultimately as an impression.
ALEX JACKSON (b. 1993 Milwaukee, WI) lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. His work has been the focus of numerous solo exhibitions, most recently at Peep Projects (Philadelphia, PA) and Jenkins Johnsons Gallery (New York, NY). Jackson’s work has been exhibited in several institutions including the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (Madison, WI), the Elmhurst Art Museum (Elmhurst, IL), and the Chazen Museum of Art (Madison, WI). He earned an MFA from Yale University, a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
