Richard Jackson was born in the year 1939 in Sacramento, California.
For his collegiate studies Jackson attended Sacramento City College studying art and engineering.
Jackson was part of the teaching faculty at UCLA from 1989 to 1994. He taught sculpture. Though he has worked with many mediums over the years his works now lean towards performance art. Sometimes the action that he is documenting is not art to some observers. For instance in this clip Richard Jackson flies a toy airplane and then crashes it just outside of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
And you must admit that at least Mr. Jackson has brought the question to the forefront of our minds, what is art! If you want to skip ahead in the clip watch the last 45 seconds to view the crash! This was a series done by Mr. Jackson titled Accidents in Abstract Painting. It was free to the public. The plane was fifteen feet long and filled with paint.
Here we see Richard Jackson at work on another abstract work.
Richard Jackson currently lives and works out of Los Angeles, California.
Has been part of exhibits in Germany, France, Switzerland, London, and the United States.
One of my favorite artists working with floral imagery started as on stage performer in the 1970s, Robert Kushner. Though very skilled and progressive with his acting, sometimes appearing nude on stage, Kusher went on to become a spectacular painter of flowers using mixed media. Below is a wonderful example of Robert Kushner’s painting style!
Try some performance art today, just for something different. Channel your favorite movie that will appear at the Oscar’s tomorrow night!
Price range information: A life sized plastic version of the duck went for more than $62,000. Watercolors range from $2500 to $7500. Oils range from $1,000 to 4000. Photographs are available starting for few hundred dollars.
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