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Thomas Jackson: Chaotic Equilibrium (Part 2)

Through Apr 28, 2025

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. Jackson has moved his fabric-based installations indoors into the museum’s rotunda. Animated by a network of computer-controlled fans, the piece simulates 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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This project is supported, in whole or in part, by federal award number SLFRP5534 awarded to the State of Tennessee by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

All exhibitions at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art are underwritten by the MBMA Exhibition Fund.

Major annual support is provided by Kay Clark and Maggie and Milton Lovell, with generous annual funding from Anonymous, Gloria and Kenneth Boyland, Holly and Paul T. Combs, Deborah and Bob Craddock, Michael and Maria Douglass, Eleanor and William Halliday, Debi and Galen Havner, Buzzy Hussey and Hal Brunt, Jay and Kristen Keegan, the Doris S. and Hubert Kiersky Charitable Remainder Trust, Carl and Valerie Person, and Bill Townsend.

Artist & Curator

Artist

Thomas Jackson

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.

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Curator

Curator

Dr. Patricia Lee Daigle

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.

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