Jackson Patterson

Recollected Memories

The annihilation of space and time through the advent of photography in the mid nineteenth century transformed American life. We are in the midst of a furthering of that annihilation. Through photomontage I am exploring the narrative that emerges between subject, space and time. The work reflects various photographs that I have taken merged with others from my family’s albums. I find myself inspired by the stories that come in to focus when we collocate the medium of photography with 21st century technological practices, the cultural influence of our country’s migration west, and the personal history of family. Each blended piece possesses its own original story, in addition to insights about photography, representation, fabrication, and visual language. In creating this project while looking through the lens of my family’s histories and biases I have found that these stories extend beyond my own journey. They exist throughout the west into our country’s cultural identity. They are stories of perseverance, pride, struggle, life and death. They are human stories intertwined in a majestic landscape.

Photographer

Jackson Patterson

Jackson Patterson received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009.
He began his process in Arizona where he grew up. Exposed to the expansive
landscapes throughout the west Jackson laid foundation for his appreciation for
the land and the human story within it. Patterson’s images breathe insight into
representation, fabrication, visual language and the relationship of people and
the earth.
He has been exhibiting his photographs in Hong Kong, London, Pennsylvania,
Vermont, Texas, Colorado, Oregon, California and Arizona since 2000 at the
Houston Center for Photography, the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Morris
Graves Museum of Art, the Pendleton Art Center, the Center for Fine Art
Photography, and the David Brower Center. His work is in various private
collections and in the Paul Sack Collection at the SFMOMA. He was recently
awarded the Renaissance Photography Prize 2013 for best single image, the
International Photography Awards 1st place in 2014, and was a Photo Lucida
Critical Mass top 50 photographer in 2015. Jackson currently resides and works
in Chicago.

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