Suzanne Jackson
1944–
Introduction
Suzanne Jackson (born 1944) is an American visual artist, gallery owner, poet, dancer, educator, and set designer; with a career spanning five decades. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. Since the late 1960s, Jackson has dedicated her life to studio art with additional participation in theatre, teaching, arts administration, community life, and social activism. Jackson's oeuvre includes poetry, dance, theater, costume design, paintings (both two- and three-dimensional), prints, and drawings.
Jackson has spent time throughout her career teaching students and influencing future generations of artists and culture creators, as well as building and participating in close-knit art communities with peer artists and thinkers. She worked in Los Angeles during the 1960s to 1980s, founding Gallery 32, and exhibiting additional work at the Ankrum Gallery. During the 1980s she lived in Idyllwild, California teaching and creating art. She also worked at Yale University, and in New York and Philadelphia in the 1990s. She worked in the Savannah, Georgia art community, from 1996 to 2009.
Wikidata identifier
Q28223041
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Introduction
Noted as an artist, poet, set designer, gallery owner, and dancer. In L.A. from 1968 to 1970, Jackson ran Gallery 32, a space dedicated to fostering a supportive artist community near MacArthur Park.
Country of birth
United States
Roles
Artist, mixed-media artist, painter, scenographer
ULAN identifier
500336333
Names
Suzanne Jackson, Suzanne Fitzallen Jackson, Suzanne Jackson Odùsolú
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