Tomashi Jackson Artist Talk

March 5th, 2025 from 5:30-6:30pm in Scales 102. Reception to follow in Scales lobby outside Hanes Gallery.

Join us for a talk with multimedia artist Tomashi Jackson, whose work is featured in Young, Gifted, and Black, currently on view at Hanes Gallery. The talk begins at 5:30pm in Scales 102; a reception will follow.

Tomashi Jackson (b. 1980 in Houston, Texas) combines practices of painting, printmaking, and sculpture with archival research in areas of public infrastructure policy. The work interrogates intersections between formal languages of visual art and political languages driving histories of segregation, voting rights, education, transportation, labor, and housing in the United States. Considering color as both chromatic and social, Jackson’s work embraces compositional abstraction to investigate the interaction of color and its impact on the perceived value of human life in public space.

Jackson’s work was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and has been featured in group exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; High Museum, Atlanta; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. Her work is included in many public collections, including those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, the Perez Museum, Miami and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. She lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This event was sponsored by WFU’s Women’s Center, LGBTQ Center, Wake The Arts, and an anonymous donor.