‘Emotion and history through color’: the activism of Tomashi Jackson’s art

The Houston-born artist returns home for a mid-career survey of her work exploring the use of color and discussions of race in AmericaWhile the Black artist Tomashi Jackson was pursuing her MFA from the Yale School of Art in the 2010s, she had a revelation about how our perception of color works. While studying color theory, she had gone back to the basics, rereading foundational texts from her art education – Jackson realized that the way these books talked about color resembled how Americans talk about race.“I was seeing a lot of similarities in the way color phenomena is described as compulsory,” she said in an interview, “as against one’s will, and potentially discomforting or panic-inducing. Concepts of color are experienced as chromatic, and they are also social.” Continue reading...

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