Serio Press is proud to present Ronald Jackson's first serigraph edition. Made up of 20 hand-pulled layers, the medium allows for bold, graphic shapes and vibrant colors.
The process is particularly well suited to Jackson's style, as it allows him to build up layers of color and texture, resulting in a multi-dimensional surface, much like the characters that adorn Ronald's paintings.
From the artist:
Johnnie Mae King, also known as “Aunt Johnnie”, embodies a shift in my artistic practice towards creating immersive and imaginative narratives. As a character, she serves as a personified muse of ideas and stories that I seek to explore as an artist. By viewing the world through her perspective, I contemplate the emotions and experiences that she may have encountered in the past, present, or future.
My aim is to move observers of visual art towards a deeper engagement with creative storytelling. With Johnnie Mae King, I aim to entertain and inspire, inviting viewers to join me in the exploration of her unique and captivating universe.
Artist Bio:
Ronald grew up a kid in the rural South of the Arkansas Delta. He is the youngest of eleven kids born to a farmer and a community organizer (before such term existed). His Mother and Father left a legacy of challenging and reshaping the norms of the racial status quo in his surrounding home communities.
He came from a lineage black landowners farming in the South. In the mid sixties, his parents led communities in the organization of multiple boycotts against the establishment of local racial injustices. Despite suffering continual threats, harassments, and organized retaliations, efforts eventually led to a US Court of Appeals decision, ruling in the favor of forcing the area school districts into full desegregation.
Jackson studied Architecture at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo CA before joining the US Army. He served 21 plus years in the Army retiring in 2014. Midway his military career, he began a pursuit of becoming a professional fine artist. With no access to art school, he engaged himself on a journey of self disciplines and personal discovery to realize this goal as a self-taught artist. The military afforded him the experience of living in places such as South Korea, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Iraq, and Kuwait; He believes that the culture of his childhood upbringing and his adult experiences; being immersed into other societies has given him a broad perspective on life and the complex challenges we all face.
He states, "I see life as a continual experience of discovery. Contrasting things that are apparent or taught with personal discoveries creates a perspective that is unique to every individual. Being mainly a figurative artist, I seek to capture intimate settings to use as a gateway to ponder the complexities of the human experience, as well as the society that influences them. A comprehensive catalog of unique experiences is veiled behind every silent gaze of the human expression. My goal is to create work that is visually poetic; aiming to create an interactive experience in which the viewer is compelled to ponder possibilities that are likely reflections of their own experiences. I hope that my work can become a catalyst to trigger self-discovery of value, beauty, and significance among people who in some way may feel marginalized. Additionally, I desire to invite viewers to discover and value the humanity of people of various backgrounds and beliefs - exercising this practice in the observation and study of figurative art."
