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Collections:
Vesterheim Museum, Decorah, IA
(permanent textile collection)
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Artist Statement for Nancy Jackson
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To reveal the rich possibilities of hope within the universal human experiences of loneliness and isolation seems a good goal for Human exploration, so this is what I do. I am especially interested in developing images that unite the spiritual and material world. Though I have worked most of my life with total abstraction to accomplish my task, I also have found the semi-abstraction of Russian and Greek icons to be powerful locations of these ideas.
I ground my work in the fundamental premise that good and evil cannot be clearly defined and that this mystery holds each of us captive to an existence that may not always produce comfort, happiness and security as defined by our culture. It is my goal to expose the possibilities within this mystery and to discourage escapism.
Images of movement, change and transformation and a sense of being guarded, protected and nurtured in the transformative process are also important ideas in many of my works. My understanding of being "guarded, protected and nurtured" does not exclude suffering, and it is not equal to "happiness, comfort and security."
Additionally, my artwork is the continuing creation of my life vision; a vehicle and, at the same time, an incarnation of this inner journey.
I pursue these ideas within the mid-20th Century understanding of the shallow picture plane, which is particularly well suited to shapes and methods that are natural to tapestry and iconography.
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