Luke Jackson

2007

Biography

2004-07 PGDip Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools, London
2001-04 BA [hons] Fine Art, Middlesex University

Previous Exhibitions:
2006 The R.A.5, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York

Selectors' Comments:
Alex Katz meets the Belgian? These are softly iconoclastic pictures that are also quite funny. They struggle with taking seriousness seriously. Good choice of subjects - what style are these guys worth, if any?

Artist's Statement:
The three paintings centre on an obsessive fetishism of each character that manifests itself in how each is painted and a specific mode of history. They appear not as direct portraits and avoid any overt familiarity with the photographic image. They instead move behind the charged enigma of each persona.

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Fernando, Pessoa, Oil on canvas, 50 x 40cm, 2006

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J D Salinger, Oil on canvas, 90 x 65cm, 2006

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Adam Holmes-Davies

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Hannah James