Thomas Jackson: Chaotic Equilibrium (Part 1)

Thomas Jackson was born in Philadelphia, PA, and grew up in Providence, RI. After earning a B.A. in History from the College of Wooster, he spent his early career in New York City working first in book publishing, then as an editor and writer at Forbes Life magazine. An interest in photography books eventually led him to pick up a camera, shooting street scenes, then landscapes, and finally the installation work he does today.Mostly self-taught as an artist, Jackson’s practice merges landscape photography, sculpture, and kinetic art. His work has been exhibited widely, including at The Photography Show (AIPAD) in New York and the Bolinas Museum in Bolinas, CA, and published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Wired, the San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere. Jackson was named one of the Critical Mass Top 50 in 2012, won the “installation/still-life” category of PDN’s The Curator award in 2013 and earned second place in CENTER's Curator's Choice Award in 2014.

Patricia Lee Daigle is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. She previously served as Director of The Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art at the University of Memphis and Curatorial Assistant in Contemporary Art at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Daigle received her Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of California, Santa Barbara.