Sam Jackson

Sam Jackson’s compulsive oil paintings explore themes of transgression and power in intimate portraits of youth culture and desire. Jackson’s text appears propelled to new, heightened voices. Symbols and statements speak of inner dialogues and desires, driving us to question the tensions between our public and private identities; and to navigate truths about intimacy, fantasy, and will. With gravity and compassion, Jackson’s paintings walk the line between violence and vulnerability, regret and desire, kissing and fucking.

Both provocative and touching, their intimate portrayals embrace the questions and compulsions that unite us. Disarmed by our desire to explore who we are, and who we can be. Transcending generations, time and place, through their work we discover that these compulsions, these transgressions, lie at the heart of what makes us human. A sacred passage through which we can engage with the Gods and ghosts within ourselves. Illuminated in the spotlight, for a moment, forever.

Sam Jackson graduated from the Royal Academy Schools, London with a Post-Graduate Diploma Fine Art in 2007 having completed his BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Middlesex University in 2003. His works are presented in the collections of Javier Baz, Denver, Carlos Fragoso and Glen Luchford, New York, David Roberts and Sir Norman Rosenthal, London, as well es Kay Saatchi, Los Angeles. Furthermore he is part of various private collections from Europe and The United States.