Dan Jackson (b. 1970)

Rendered in an arrestingly illusionistic manner, Dan Jackson’s witty, vibrant paintings feature objects of everyday life, such as toys, ceramic figurines, candy, fruit, and flowers. Though still-life painters have traditionally idealized their subjects or imbued them with extra-compositional meaning—as exemplified by Dutch and Flemish still life and vanitas painting—Jackson seeks to destabilize conventions of spectatorship that have long underpinned the Western tradition.

Submitted by Dolby Chadwick Gallery