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From Cornfields to Cliffs and In Between: Daily Palette Artists Reimagine Iowa's Landscape Since its launch in 2004, the Daily Palette at the University of Iowa has featured the work of over 3000 Iowa-connected artists, publishing their work online and encouraging a greater appreciation of the arts statewide.
THOMAS C. JACKSON Thomas Jackson grew up in Rock Island, Illinois and earned his MFA from the University of Notre Dame. He now lives and works as a full-time artist in Cedar Rapids. He has been exhibiting his work in solo, group, and juried shows throughout the country for more than forty years. Tom's work is included in dozens of corporate, museum, and college collections throughout Iowa and Illinois, including the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, and Mount Mercy University. His work was first published on the Daily Palette in 2005. American Slice 31 combines three different images connected through the theme of abandonment and destruction: a portion of a parking ramp in downtown Cedar Rapids, a concrete slab at the site of a small building that was razed outside of Cedar Rapids, and a chair on the side of the road between Cedar Rapids and Mount Vernon.
These compositions combine two or more images into a single artwork. I combine images because I want enough information to engage the viewer in looking for connections between images. I invite the viewer to search their own past, remember emotional experiences, and think about common images in a different way. I strive for ambiguity to increase the number of viewer interpretations. When one thinks about what appeals to Americans today in movies, politics, celebrities, food, etc., people seem to want to be attracted to and repelled by images at the same time. My sometimes voyeuristic, broken-narrative compositions reflect America's channel-changing attention span and state of mind. -- Thomas Jackson |
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