ISBN: 0691261997 9780691261997

Category: Art / General

Page count: 288

<p><b>A richly illustrated account tracing the full arc of contemporary painter Suzanne Jackson’s life and multifaceted artistic vision</b><br><br>First and foremost a painter, Suzanne Jackson has worked for six decades in a dizzying array of genres, including drawing, printmaking, poetry, dance, and theater design. <i>Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love</i> reveals Jackson’s achievements as a leading and influential artist who has been in dialogue with her contemporaries, from Betye Saar and Emory Douglas to Senga Nengudi and Mary Lovelace O’Neal.<br><br>This wide-ranging book illuminates Jackson’s work and its connections to nature, environmentalism, performance, feminism, and Black and Native traditions. It explores the way her innovative hanging acrylic works break the canvas; the role of dance and set design in Jackson’s practice; and her trailblazing Los Angeles art space Gallery 32, which she ran from 1968 to 1970, and which became a focus for a circle of fellow emerging artists. The book also features artist dialogues between Jackson and Nengudi, Saar, Fred Eversley, and Richard Mayhew, as well as a conversation between Jackson and SFMOMA painting conservator Jennifer Hickey.<br><br><b>Exhibition Schedule</b><br>SFMOMA, San Francisco<br>September 27, 2025–March 1, 2026<br><br>Walker Art Center, Minneapolis<br>May 14, 2026–August 23, 2026<br><br>Museum of Fine Arts, Boston<br>September 26, 2026–February 7, 2027</p>