Park Billboards: Jalen Jackson
Overview
Jalen Jackson is a visual artist whose paintings explore African American culture, collective memory, and experiences through naturalistic figurative work. Jackson began college as a business management student at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. During his junior year, he signed up for a painting class and rediscovered the love for art he had fostered as a child growing up in Durham, NC. He received his BFA in Visual Arts from NC A&T in 2021 and has exhibited locally at 311 Art Gallery, Anchorlight Studios, Wake Tech, Barton College, The Fruit, and Artspace. He was the inaugural HBCU artist in residence at Artspace in downtown Raleigh.
The selection of works for the Park billboards includes Cessation before Metanoia, Reasons He Never Went to Sleep Hungry, and the Middlesex series.
Park Pictures are three large-scale outdoor billboards in three locations along the greenway in the Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park.
Exhibition Sponsors
Commissioned by the North Carolina Museum of Art and made possible, in part, by the Hartfield Foundation; Libby and Lee Buck; the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources; the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.; and the William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment for Educational Exhibitions.
Details
Image: Jalen Jackson, Middlesex, 2024; ©️ 2024 Jalen Jackson, Courtesy of the artist
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