A Constellation of Blackness: Rendering Invisibility, Hypervisibility, Devaluation, and Triumph
2021–ongoing
Santa Fe Art Institute; Santa Fe, NM; September 2022
A Constellation of Blackness: Rendering Invisibility, Hypervisibility, Devaluation, and Triumph, 2021–ongoing. Hand-printed silkscreen broadsides on black Legion Stonehenge paper, black ink, white ink, and extra fine black glitter. 22x30” each (set of 12 to 16).
A Constellation of Blackness: Rendering Invisibility, Hypervisibility, Devaluation, and Triumph, 2021–ongoing. Hand-printed silkscreen broadsides on black Legion Stonehenge paper, black ink, white ink, and extra fine black glitter. 22x30” each (set of 12 to 16).
A Constellation of Blackness: Rendering Invisibility, Hypervisibility, Devaluation, and Triumph, 2021–ongoing. Hand-printed silkscreen broadsides on black Legion Stonehenge paper, black ink, white ink, and extra fine black glitter. 22x30” each (set of 12 to 16).
A Constellation of Blackness: Rendering Invisibility, Hypervisibility, Devaluation, and Triumph, 2021–ongoing. Hand-printed silkscreen broadsides on black Legion Stonehenge paper, black ink, white ink, and extra fine black glitter. 22x30” each (set of 12 to 16).
A Constellation of Blackness: Rendering Invisibility, Hypervisibility, Devaluation, and Triumph, 2021–ongoing. Hand-printed silkscreen broadsides on black Legion Stonehenge paper, black ink, white ink, and extra fine black glitter. 22x30” each (set of 12 to 16).
A Constellation of Blackness: Rendering Invisibility, Hypervisibility, Devaluation, and Triumph, 2021–ongoing. Hand-printed silkscreen broadsides on black Legion Stonehenge paper, black ink, white ink, and extra fine black glitter. 22x30” each (set of 12 to 16).
Verge Center for the Arts; Sacramento, CA; October 2021
A Constellation of Blackness: Rendering Invisibility, Hypervisibility, Devaluation, and Triumph, 2021–ongoing. Hand-printed silkscreen broadsides on black Legion Stonehenge paper, black ink, white ink, and extra fine black glitter. 22x30” each (set of 12 to 16).
Santa Fe Art Institute; Santa Fe, NM; September 2022
A Constellation of Blackness: Rendering Invisibility, Hypervisibility, Devaluation, and Triumph
2021–ongoing
Hand-printed silkscreen broadsides on black Legion Stonehenge paper, black ink, white ink, and extra fine black glitter
22 x 30” each
The word constellation is defined as a “group or configuration of ideas, feelings, characteristics, objects, etc., that are related in some way.” These silkscreen prints represent related ideas and examples of Jackson’s various accounts of invisibility, hypervisibility, devaluation, and triumph experienced as a Black woman in America. Building upon the concept of her initial and ongoing project Language of Invisibility, this artwork presents black text on black paper along with strategically placed words in white to telegraph compelling, layered, and subliminal messages. The text is set in Atkinson Hyperlegible, a font created by the Braille Institute specifically to increase readability. Jackson enjoys the paradox of using a font designed to improve legibility and comprehension to render nearly illegible text that illuminates previously unrecognized constructs.