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McMurtrey Gallery is pleased to present work by artist Philip R. Jackson. In his contemporary still life paintings, Mr. Jackson creates playful vignettes in which unlikely combinations of everyday objects find themselves interacting in humorous, and often dramatic ways. In this body of work titled "Stage-Struck," which is a continuation of his "Tension Series," the artist asks the viewer to question his or her understanding of the world, and any ideas he or she might have about balance, weight, perception, and the relationship between seemingly disparate objects.
In the words of John Streetman, Director of the Evansville Museum in Evansville, Indiana, "One need only encounter the surprising components of his 'Tension Series' to know that this is a highly skilled and inventive craftsman, hell-bent on making sure that he doesn't take himself too seriously! Like any still life painter worth his salt, Jackson finds beauty, humor, and intrigue in common objects, inviting us to reconsider them, through his most un-common vision, as what he wryly terms 'an overlooked discovery'".
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Philip R. Jackson received his BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design and his MFA from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He was awarded the internationally juried Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Fellowship in 2001, and was recently selected to participate in the 2006 Biennial: Contemporary American Realism at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Mr. Jackson has shown extensively on a national level, and his work can be found in the collection of the Evansville Museum of Art in Evansville, Indiana; the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Fort Wayne, Indiana; and in many private collections throughout the country.
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