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Bryn Jackson Studio

Modeling social and environmental accountability through creative practice

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Bryn Jackson, When a Tree Falls (Quartered, Quarantined), 2021. White mulberry, LED, repurposed museum casework, 24 x 2 x 3 ft. © Bryn Jackson. Photo by Anna Powell Denton.


My name is Bryn Jackson, and I'm an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and filmmaker. I have exhibited in a number of galleries, clubs, universities, and artist-run spaces in New York, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, and Los Angeles, and my work - which ranges from photography and print to digital video, sculpture, and interactive media - has been published by Creeps Annual and Papercut Press. I received a BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Through creative practice, I work hard to inspire a deeper understanding of our shared environment and the ways in which it expresses and informs the condition of our being. My goal is to encourage a perpetual state of curiosity and growth in myself and those that I interact with, and as such, my process is often collaborative, organizational, and insistently interdisciplinary. The resulting artworks grapple with the politics, economics, and philosophy of existence and communicate through a wide variety of forms.

Seitu Jones, At the Crossroads: A Community Meal, 2019. Social practice project. © Seitu Jones. Curated by Bryn Jackson and hosted by the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields in partnership with Flanner Farm, Butler Center for Urban Ecology, Lawrence Community Gardens, and Growing Places Indy. LaShawhda Crowe Storm, redLINES, quilted runner, 421 x 1 ft. Meal prepared by Chef Corey McDaniel and Joshua Ratliff, Director of Culinary Arts at Newfields. Poetry by January York (as performed by Dajanae Harges) and Synergy. Photo by Eric Lubrick, courtesy of Newfields.
In an organizational context, I challenge ‘traditional’ canonical thought by means of practicing a more socially-oriented, community-centered form of art production and curation. I do this work in an effort to model ethical and equitable stewardship of art, artists, our communities, our environments, and our histories. My collaborators and I have not only challenged, but in some cases, have radically augmented institutional practice and infrastructure through this work, which is built on a foundation of deep listening, intergenerational skill- and knowledge-sharing, and institutional de-centering. Collaborating with artists across media, I leverage my skills, knowledge, and experience to create a platform for institutional critique, community-building, and civic engagement.

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