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ADDISON RIPLEY - ART +NFT
12.10.2022 - 01.21.2023
Environmental Aide-Memoire by Kay Jackson
An exhibition devoted to offering a paired product, the physical art plus a "minted" NFT with all pertinent information about the object, including provenance and certificate of authenticity stored securely on the block chain.
BELGRAVIA CREATIVES FOR UKRAINE FUNDRAISER
03.25.2022
Ukraine’s National Animal, the Common Nightingale 8 x 8 inches
On the 25th of March 2022, Kay Jackson was one of the artists who’s work was auctioned off to raise funds for Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. The event was hosted by ADIONA LONDON in Cassius&Co gallery in London, United Kingdom.
“Technically, this panel is a series of oil glazes with scratch lines revealing the first layer. Small pieces of gold leaf are added to call attention to the “distress line” intersections. It was created in January as an experimental exercise — a symbol of a bird in compromised environment. It patiently hung in my studio until the first week of March when I suddenly realized that it embodied Ukrainian flag colors and could certainly represent their national animal, the Common Nightingale. The symbolism of a bird, captured in a net, is all too appropriate in representing the entrapped Ukrainian people”
KAY JACKSON RESPONDS TO UKRAINE INVASION
03.01.2022
“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it” - Eleanor Roosevelt
THE WASHINGTON POST
“IN THE GALLERIES : DEPICTING NATURE’S VITAL, EPHEMERAL CONNECTIONS”
10.05.2018
Local artist Kay Jackson recycles titles throughout “Butterflies & Zebras,” her Addison/Ripley Fine Art show of environmentally themed paintings. Of the repeated phrases, the most apt is “It’s All Connected.” The animals Jackson depicts melt into their surroundings and each other, much as the pictures combine fabulism and naturalism, metallic leaf and various pigments. While the concerns are contemporary, the tempera paint and filmy gold on gessoed wood evoke Renaissance altarpieces and Slavic icons.