Veronica Jackson: Constellation of Blackness

Veronica Jackson: Constellation of Blackness
September 13-October 27,2024

Veronica Jackson’s background encompasses the critical examination of visual culture. As an artist, she records, interprets, and makes aware the complexities in which humans exist and affect their social surroundings. As a recovering architect and interpretive designer, she creatively solves problems within virtual and built environments. Her visual art practice is a combination of past professional disciplines, present lived experiences, and the cache of contemporary and historic research accumulated. Jackson’s initial and ongoing project—The Burden of Invisibility—physically manifests her evolution from designer to conceptual artist. Her body of work is text-based, autobiographical, and in response to her gendered and racialized existence in America—with a special focus on the portrayal, perception, and legacy of Black women in popular media. 

Jackson attended her first artist residency at Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI), NM in 2017. She has engaged in many residencies since at Ali Youssefi Project WAL/Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA in 2021; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA and Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History, Danville, VA in 2020; and Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY and another invitation to SFAI in 2022. Upcoming is the exhibiting artist residency and accompanying solo exhibition at Visual Arts Center of Richmond, VA in 2024.

Jackson has exhibited in group and solo shows including NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, NYC; Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA; FLOW Art Festival, Chroma Projects, McGuffey Art Center, and Piedmont Virginia Community College, all in Charlottesville, VA; 536 Gallery/Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History, Danville, VA; The Arts Center in Orange, Orange, VA; Bower Center for the Arts, Bedford, VA; and Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA. She is in the collection of private individuals, the Virginia Humanities, Charlottesville, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.

In 2016 Jackson graduated with an MA in Visual & Critical Studies from CCA, San Francisco. She currently lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Central Virginia.