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Aryel René Jackson (they/them) is a Black Afro-Creole, non-binary artist and scholar whose inter-disciplinary practice engages critically with art history, cultural identity, and the politics of representation.
Drawing on both historical framweworks and contemporary discourse, Jackson explores how visual culture shapes and reflects societal narratives, with particular attention to marginalized voices and cross-cultural influences.
Jackson’s practice and research contributes to expanding art historical conversations beyond traditional Eurocentric boundaries, emphasizing inclusivity, critical inquiry, and the evolving role of art in shaping collective memory.
Drawing on both historical framweworks and contemporary discourse, Jackson explores how visual culture shapes and reflects societal narratives, with particular attention to marginalized voices and cross-cultural influences.
Jackson’s practice and research contributes to expanding art historical conversations beyond traditional Eurocentric boundaries, emphasizing inclusivity, critical inquiry, and the evolving role of art in shaping collective memory.
This website presents two recent series, “Embedded Surfaces” (2024) and “Transmission” (2025), that reflect an interdisciplinary and materially driven practice.
Embedded Surfaces applies visibility and opacity via layering of soil, archive imagery, and textile on panels built through repetition, negative space, and collage, resulting in fragmentation. Silhouettes and photographs of landscapes and historical and public figures become mingled with grids, patterns, and soil.
Transmission extends this process into printmaking and video, where works such as Re:Future combine image projection, sound, and performance to explore “call and response” as a visual and aural ritual.
Across both series, Jackson explores speculative futures by treating soil and archival fragments as carriers of ecological memory and lived history. Their work emphasizes layering and transformation as visual forms of folding past into re-presentation.