Dan Jackson Art

2014. Approx. 5” x 9.5” Mixed Media. Edition of 1.

2011. 11” x 14” Archival pigment print. Open edition.

Photographed at the Botanical Gardens in Edmonton. Like a life-sized diorama “Native People’s Garden” is relegated to a small few meters of land and roped off from the rest of the gardens. “Native Habitat” illustrates and confronts the superficial side of postcard quaintness and beauty.

2011. 11” x 14” Archival pigment print from 4x5 Polaroid P/N Type 55 negative. Edition of 12.

2011. 11” x 14” Archival pigment print from 4x5 Polaroid P/N Type 55 negative. Edition of 12.

“As the photographic industry became the refuge of all failed painters with too little talent, or too lazy to complete their studies, this universal craze not only assumed the air of blind imbecile infatuation, but took on the aspect of revenge…the badly applied advances of photography, like all purely material progress for that matter, have contributed to the impoverishment of French artistic genius.” ~Charles Baudelaire

2009-2011. 11” x 14” Archival pigment print. Edition of 12.

1999. 14” x 14” Selenium tone / Halochrome on fibre-base. NFS.

2009. 4” x 5” Polaroid Transfer onto watercolour paper. Edition of 25.

2009. 4” x 5” Polaroid Transfer onto watercolour paper. Edition of 6.

A woman’s hands so crippled by arthritis she can no longer wear her engagement ring or wedding band. Like artifacts in a museum the rings are encased behind glass, out of reach, but forever preserving what they represent.

2016. Approx. 13” x 19” Mixed media. Edition of 3 (sold out)

The subject’s face and by extension personality, is cropped out, focusing our attention instead on our obsession with consumerism and status in a world of Instagram selfies.

2015. Approx. 13” x 19” Archival pigment print. Edition of 12.

At first blush this image appears lyrical and pretty. In reality this daisy is wilted and dying. Rotating the canvas 90 degrees gives the impression that’s it’s dancing or fluttering happily in the breeze. Sometimes viewing an object from a different perspective can give it new life. The Pictorialists loved these sort of visual games.

2014. “12” x 12” Archival pigment print. Open edition.

1999 16” x 20” Solarized Polaroid Type55 P/N film. Selenium toned fibre based print. Edition of 6. (Sold Out.)

2011 12” x 12” Solarized Polaroid Type55 P/N film. Archival pigment print on Slickrock. Edition of 25.

2011. 11” x 16” Archival pigment print. Edition of 6.

2014. 11” x 14” Archival pigment print. Open edition.

2014. 12” x 17” Archival pigment print. Edition of 8.

2015. 24” x 24” Archival pigment print. Edition of 6.

2015. 16” x 20” Archival pigment print. Edition of 12.

2014. 17” x 24” Archival pigment print. Open edition.

2014. Approx. 13” x 18” Mixed media. NFS.

2015. Approx. 13” x 18” Mixed media. Edition of 1. (sold)

"There are beautiful pictures and pictures of beautiful things.” ~anon

Dan Jackson’s ongoing Modern Pictorialism series spans two decades of work. Shot using a variety of classical and modern technologies, these works address how photography is used; to lie, to document, to objectify and convey status historically and how these values have changed over time.

This series ennobles the vulgar and mundane and disrupts what we hold sacred and beautiful.

At times satirical and irreverent, Modern Pictorialism takes a light hearted look at the self-importance that lead to Pictorialism’s collapse and it’s impact on painting and art history.