Richard Jackson

Accidents in Abstract Painting

22 March - 10 May 2003

Zürich

American artist Richard Jackson (b. 1939 in California), known internationally since 1992’s ‘Helter Skelter' group show at the L.A. MOCA and his participation in the 1999 Venice Biennale, presents his aeroplane project, Accidents in Abstract Painting, which has taken him more than three years to develop and put into practice and is on view for the first time in his current exhibition at the Galerie Hauser & Wirth.

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About the Artist

Richard Jackson

A pre-eminent figure in American contemporary art since the 1970s, Richard Jackson is influenced by both Abstract Expressionism and action painting, exploring a performative painting process which seeks to extend the potential of painting by upending its technical conventions. Born in Sacramento, California in 1939, Jackson first came to international...

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