American artist Layne Jackson is a painter and archivist, working with a variety of media, and with pattern and serialization of images.
“Growing up in Texas, in a wooded area, created the earliest notion of vast space and the ecology of species living in congress. There was the big sky of our numerous trips across the state, and the exhilaration of being on big, large bodies of water.
“I look at my art practice as daily meditation on form and ecology.
I use traditional techniques, working in different materials for each series with a respect for formal considerations, and the values of light and dark, while seeking to make seen disappearing ways of life and species.”

Jackson was born in Dallas in the ‘50’s, attended school in Toronto before returning to Texas and receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in studio art from the University of Texas. Jackson moved from Austin to Chicago in the late ‘90’s.
Known for the early narrative paintings and botanical series of disappearing flora, new work is dedicated to disappearing ways of life, while pressing into the social conditions concerning the erosion of our waterways and the breaking apart of long standing social conditions.
Next series is based on Caddo Lake, near the border of Texas and Louisiana, where I will be doing a Fall residency to paint and study the changes in that unique ecosystem.