Ripley Jackson: Life Portraits

Ripley Jackson's early work as a painter started out with portraiture. Free-standing, life size portraits are constructed of jigsawed plywood panels, coated with a glossy polyester resin. Each piece is also equipped with built-in hardware, allowing it to stand alone. Some of the pieces actually interact with each other to create a narrative, as seen in the performance titled "The Perpetual Instant." Recently, Jackson has revived his portraiture work as depicted in his life size portrait of "The Florida Golfer" from his forthcoming "The Floridians" series, which highlights quintessential characters representing the unique essence of the often misinterpreted Florida lifestyle.