LIGHT/ DRIFT RMCAD

http://www.rmcad.edu/visiting-artist-scholar-designer-program/2010-12-03/scott-johnson-and-ethan-jackson

Friday, December 3, 2010
RMCAD welcomes artists Scott Johnson and Ethan Jackson for the third installment of our Public Lecture Series, brought to you by the VASD Program. They will give a public lecture at 6:00 pm in the Mary Harris Auditorium on Friday, December 3.

In their lecture, "Converging Parallels," Jackson and Johnson will address the work in their exhibition, Light | Drift and their history of shared interests. They will provide visual and historical context for key aspects of the works in the show and present important works from past years of parallel production. Their discussion will include ideas of vision and representation, art function and practice, and relationships to meaning and rationality. Jackson and Johnson will also address the collaborative process in present and previous works.

Ethan Jackson is a visual artist working in optical installation, lens-based imagery, and photographic media. His current projects are camera obscura based transformations of architectural space into illuminated, contemplative environments. Other works deal with aspects of landscape representation and the notion of place; illusions of space from painting to lens-based representation; themes of violence, mortality and morality in vernacular imagery. He attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and Williams College. He is based in Portland, Oregon. Visit his website at: ethanjackson.net.

Scott Johnson was born in 1969 and grew up in the Colorado Rockies. He obtained his BFA from The University of Colorado at Boulder and his MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. His work as an artist has been informed by such as experiences as herding cows on the Navajo Reservation, traveling upon the Silk Road and living in Venice, Italy. He presently teaches at The Colorado College in Colorado Springs. Visit his website at: scjworks.com