What follows are some of the collected and edited highlights of their conversations. Risa Puleo has been talking to Tomashi Jackson over the past year. Her solo exhibition The Subliminal is Now opened at Tilton Gallery on November 3 and is on view through January 7, 2017. v Board of Education of Topeka) (Sweatt v Painter)” (2016)īorn in Houston and raised in Los Angeles, Tomashi Jackson is currently based in New York City and the Greater Boston area, where she teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. v County School Board of Prince Edward County) (Brown, et. Tomashi Jackson, “Avocado Seed Soup (Davis, et. She visualizes a merger of historical and contemporary experiences of color perception, and she considers their effects on human life in public space in America. Through a deft integration of mediums, Jackson is guided by methods of desegregation and dehierarchization.

“Apartheid Blues II (Old Texas Courtroom)” (2015) features a blue similar to the color used for chroma keying in early video technology, and has been used as a projection screen in the video collage “Forever 21: The Essence of Innocence Suite” (2015). v Board of Education of Topeka) (Sweatt v Painter)” (2016) combine painting with sculpture, textile, embroidery, printmaking, and photography.

What’s more, works like “Avocado Seed Soup (Davis, et. The results are large-scale abstract works that connect past and present, formalism and intuition, languages of color theory and human rights legislation. The discovery led Jackson to use the properties of color perception as an aesthetic strategy for investigating the history of American school desegregation and the contemporary resegregation of public space. While studying painting and printmaking at Yale University, Tomashi Jackson noticed that the language Josef Albers used to describe color perception phenomenon, in his 1963 instructional text Interaction of Color, mirrored the language of racialized segregation found in the transcripts of education policy and civil rights court cases fought by Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF). Installation view, Tomashi Jackson: The Subliminal is Now at Tilton Gallery (all images courtesy Tilton Gallery)

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