Exhibitions

THOMAS JACKSON: CHAOTIC EQUILIBRIUM

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art / 1934 Poplar Ave. December 4, 2024 - April 28, 2025

Thomas Jackson

Pennsylvania-based artist Thomas Jackson (b. 1971, Philadelphia) harnesses the wind to create ethereal works that blur the boundaries between landscape photography, sculpture, and kinetic art. This December, Jackson will refresh his live, fabric-based installation in the museum’s rotunda. Animated by a network of computer-controlled fans, the piece will simulate the rhythmic movements of kelp forests swaying in ocean currents. Alternately expanding, contracting, breaking apart and coming together again, the installation will exist in a state of constant transformation, a continuous search for equilibrium between order and chaos.

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Image: Thomas Jackson, Tulle no. 045, Nantucket, Massachusetts, 2022