Mount Hope Meadow Installation View 2009
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Ethan Jackson is a visual artist working in photographic media and optical installation. Light, vision, image and imagination are the basis for artworks ranging from the perceptual the documentary. Browse various projects in the Works section.
Current News:
Ethan is showing now at Chambers@916 in Portland Oregon in conjunction with Jerry Wingren. He presents an interactive video installation called Echo Pool in which ambient sounds produce virtual ripples in a mirror-like video reflection.
Ethan is currently Artist-in-Residence at the Marsh Billings Rockefeller National Historic Park in Woodstock, Vermont. He is installing a series of optical works in historic and contemporary buildings and working with the art collection of the park.
This fall, he will be working in Taos, New Mexico at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, where he will continue optical and photographic projects. In October, he will open a show at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, in collaboration with artist Scott Johnson.
Recent Events:
Ethan has taught recently at various institution including Williams College, Reed College, Willamette University, and Portland Community College.
In the fall of 2009, he was in residence at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York, and in the fall of 2008 at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in the Bay Area.
Between those periods, he was Visiting Lecturer in Art at Williams College, where he completed the optical installation Mt Hope Meadow.
Acknowledgments:
Ethan Jackson’s work has been directly supported through the K2 Family Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission, the Regional Arts and Culture Council and the NAAU. Work has also been facilitated by the Corporation of Yaddo, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Ucross Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and Sam and Dusty Boynton.