Richard Jackson - Tapa dura

This original monograph on the work of the Los Angeles-based artist accompanies the first major North American exhibition in over twenty years and documents site-specific paintings and other works created especially for this occasion. Trained as an engineer, Jackson juxtaposes his considerations of labor with the legacy of painting producing an astonishing range of unconventional forms. Several of Jackson’s iconic works are featured and discussed, including 1250 Stacked Paintings (2006-07), Glass Head (2006), as well as Jackson’s large scale re-creation of Georges Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

Andrew Berardini regularly publishes criticism and essays for art journals including Frieze, Art Review, and Mousse, where he’s a contributing editor. As a curator at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena (California) he worked on major exhibitions.