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Vincent Jackson

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  • Beautiful Pink Neck
  • Face
  • Face
  • Face on Wood
  • Figure on White
  • Houses
  • Portrait
  • Portrait
  • Red Woman
  • Sounds of Spoken English
  • Three People
  • Woman with Pink Earrings
  • Wooden Screen with Fourteen Faces

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Vincent Jackson
Vincent Jackson

Vincent Jackson was born in 1961 and is a San Francisco native. He has been an artist in the Creativity Explored studio since 1984.

Jackson is one of the most prolific artists at Creativity Explored, and is known for large-scale figurative oil pastels with heavy layers of color and thick defining lines. Jackson breaks up the human form into geometric shapes and emphasizes each plane with saturated colors and substantial black outlines. The mask-like works that result from Jackson’s process relate to many African and Oceanic folk art images. After years of working primarily with drawing media, Jackson has recently been experimenting with three-dimensional artwork.

In 2009 Jackson’s work was chosen adorn the third series of artisanal chocolates from Recchiuti Confections, one of our community arts partners.

Selected Exhibitions

  • 2010

    • Paper!Awesome!, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions

  • 2009

    • Avalon at Mission Bay, Permanent Collection, San Francisco
    • A Night at Findlay’s Dance Hall, Creativity Explored, San Francisco
    • TV and Me, Creativity Explored, San Francisco

  • 2008

    • Art Repurposed, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco
    • Fibrocosm, Creativity Explored, San Francisco
    • Tasty, Creativity Explored, San Francisco
    • Issues, Issues, Oakland
    • Quarter Century, Creativity Explored
    • Finders Keepers, Creativity Explored

  • 2007

    • SF Notables Portrait Auction, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
    • Naked, Creativity Explored
    • Shadowshine, Creativity Explored

  • 2006

    • The Beat Goes On, Creativity Explored
    • Sacred Places, Co-curator, Creativity Explored

  • 2005

    • Wear to Go, Creativity Explored

  • 2004

    • Don’t Call me Retard, San Francisco Public Library
    • Dialogue Project, Funabashi Cure Gallery, Funabashi, Japan
    • Heads n’ Tails, Creativity Explored
    • CBS Marketwatch Exhibtion, San Francisco
    • Outside Insight, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
    • Portraits…and Then Some, Embellish, San Francisco

  • 2001

    • What’s Your Story, Tanpopo-No-Ye Gallery, Nara City, Japan

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