Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe

Installation view of Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2025. Photo by Alex Barber. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live About The mid-career survey Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe will present nearly a decade of work across disciplines and will provide an overview of the threads in Jackson’s practice and her varied use of materials. Tomashi Jackson creates vibrant research driven works in the mediums of paintings, printmaking, video, photography, fiber, and sculpture. Influenced by California muralists and traditions reflecting peoples’ movements of the 1950’s-1990’s, her work scrutinizes the mechanics of societal power and recognizes the triumphs for the empowerment of communities of color.Jackson builds textured surfaces from textiles, paper, site-specific earthen materials, and ephemera, transformed archival images, washes, and opaque applications of colors to visualize her observations of human experiences touched by legislated governance. Her practice employs geometric abstraction, expressionism, and halftone lines that crosshatch and affect the viewer’s perception, illuminating the intersecting nature of historic resistance to oppression with present-day resonances.  Many recent paintings are supported by awning-style structures extending from the walls, bringing a protective architecture element inside and projecting colored lines from vinyl strips onto the wall itself. Organizers Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe is organized by Miranda Lash, Ellen Bruss Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. The exhibition’s presentation at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is curated by Ryan N. Dennis, Co-Director and Chief Curator. Support Contemporary Arts Museum Houston exhibitions are made possible by the patrons, benefactors, and donors to CAMH’s Major Exhibition Fund: Chinhui Juhn and Eddie Allen, Jereann Chaney, Louise Jamail, Sissy and Denny Kempner, Dillon Kyle and Sam Lasseter, Cabrina and Steven Owsley, Elisa and Cris Pye,  Beverly and Howard Robinson, Anonymous, and Mary Ann and F. Carrington Weems Foundation. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is funded in part by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance and the Texas Commission on the Arts. The exclusive media sponsor for Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe is Glasstire. About Tomashi Jackson Tomashi Jackson (born 1980 in Houston, Texas) was raised in Los Angeles, California. She received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art in 2016, her Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in 2012, her BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2010, and is a 2019 alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Jackson’s work has been included in recent solo exhibitions at the Neuberger Museum of Art, the Parrish Art Museum, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanc...