artist statement

Veronica Jackson’s autobiographical work stems from the position of a Black woman marking space while responding to the travails of her ancestors. Her multi-decade interpretive exhibit design and architecture career form the foundation of her multidisciplinary visual art practice. Jackson tells stories using familiar objects and text. Her work addresses many internal queries, specifically: What does it mean to be invisible? How does the designation of invisibility affect her identity and sense of self?  

Jackson’s background encompasses the critical examination of visual culture. As an artist she records, interprets, and makes aware the complexities in which humans exist and affect their social surroundings. As an architect and designer she creatively solves problems related to the structural systems within virtual and built environments. Her visual art practice combines past professional disciplines, present lived experiences, and an accumulation of contemporary and historic research. Jackson’s initial and ongoing project—The Burden of Invisibility—presents her evolution from designer to conceptual artist. Her practice investigates how Black women see, don’t see, value, or devalue themselves in visual culture, and how these attitudes affect their agency to mark space.