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WARD JACKSONjohn ferren
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165 Worth Avenue • Palm Beach, Florida 33480 • 561.655.2090724 Fifth Avenue, 7th & 8th Floors • New York, New York 10019 • 212.421.5390
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F I N D L AY G A L L E R I E Sw a l l y f i n d l a y ∙ d a v i d f i n d l a y j r
As we continue to curate exhibitions of painting movements from
the twentieth century, it is with great pleasure that we present to
you an exploration of the threads between Ward Jackson and
John Ferren through generations, inspirations, reactions and
the inevitability of a reductive, minimalist kind of abstraction.
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WARD JACKSON
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WARD JACKSONCHORDS II, 1990ACRYLIC/CANVAS34 X 34 INCHESFG© 137970
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WARD JACKSON | CHORDS 2, 1972-76
ACRYLIC/CANVAS | 36 X 36 INCHES | FG© 137349
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WARD JACKSON | CHORDS, MANHATTAN, 1972-76
ACRYLIC/CANVAS | 36 X 36 INCHES | FG© 137348
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WARD JACKSON | NEW YORK CITY (TOTEM II), 1977
GRAPHITE ON PAPER | 4 X 6 INCHES | FG© 137363
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WARD JACKSON | UNTITLED (OXIDE), 1977-79
ACRYLIC/CANVAS | 36 X 36 INCHES | FG© 137354
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WARD JACKSON | PIEDMONT II, 1970-74
ACRYLIC/CANVAS | 36 X 36 INCHES | FG© 137342
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WARD JACKSON | PIEDMONT II, 1970-74ACRYLIC/CANVAS | 36 X 36 INCHES | FG© 137343
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1960’sB&W DIAMONDS
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n the early 1960’s innovative American artists began to draw away from the gestural style of painting associated with the 1950’s Abstract Expressionists. Some, known as the Pop artists, went in the direction of a critique of popular culture. Some flooded canvasses with color. They became known as the Color Field painters. Another group of artists took their explorations in a different direction, honing content to the
bare essentials of art, structure, form, surface, material, and support, and came to be known as the Minimalists. Ward Jackson was among this latter group who pared art to its core, finding resonance in the reductive. The pioneers of this new reductive style were first exhibited in New York City in April 1964 at Kaymar Gallery, in the exhibition “Eleven Artists”, organized by Dan Flavin, which brought together for the first time, artists identified with Minimalism; Ward Jackson, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Robert Ryman, Frank Stella, Jo Baer and Dan Flavin. Brian O’Doherty, art critic for The New York Times, dubbed them “The Avant-Garde Deadpans” and cited it as “one of the most provocative shows in town”.
Ward Jackson’s seminal Black and White diamond compositions created between 1961 and 1966 packed an extraordinarily communicative energy into a tightly constrained format. These works constituted Ward Jackson’s first mature series of paintings, were exhibited and collected widely, and remain among his best known works. Their internal symmetries and tightly focused logic echoed his lifelong interest in meditation, and they marked the beginning of a style of painting that he would pursue for the rest of his life. In discussing these works
Ward Jackson wrote, “The diamond shape (or square on end) has the meditative power of a mandala and expands in a way that an ordinary square does not, since the measurement of the diameter across the center is wider than any of the outer or peripheral edges. Most of the diamond paintings have a vertical emphasis or rising energy expressing an outer as well as inner architecture, transmitting transcendental feeling through pure plastic elements. I have attempted to embody in my work an inner order that could express my most concentrated ideas. ”
The use of the diamond format with its powerful enclosing diagonals, had been pioneered by the early founders of non-objective abstraction Piet Mondrian and Theo Van Doesberg.
The limitation of palette to black and white and reductive form had also been explored early in the 20th Century by the Russian constructivist Kazimir Malevich. In harkening back to these masters, Jackson found a way
to recover and expand upon a crisply graphic approach to painting that could best express his intellectual interests in the crystallization of experience and the expressive potential of a spiritual simplicity. Among his peers in this quest for a renewed clarity were Ad Reinhardt, Carmen Herrera, and Ellsworth Kelly, who similarly rejected the gestural mode of painting to find deeper meaning in carefully crafted hard-edged compositions. In the words of art historian and critic Eleanor Heartney, writing about Ward Jackson’s Black and White Diamonds; “The reduction of form and color brushed away superficial meanings to clear the way for more eternal truths.”
— Julian Jackson & Rene Lynch | November 2016
I“The reduction of form and color
brushed away superficial meanings to clear the way for more eternal truths.”
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WARD JACKSONTRANSVERSE I, 1963-64ACRYLIC/CANVAS34 X 34 INCHESFG© 137307
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WARD JACKSONUNTITLED 3, 1966ACRYLIC/CANVAS34 X 34 INCHESFG© 137320
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WARD JACKSON | UNTITLED 1, 2, 1966ACRYLIC/CANVAS | 17 x 17 INCHES | FG© 137318/19
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WARD JACKSON | TRANSVERSE, 1997
LITHOGRAPH | 4 X 6 INCHES | FG© 137370
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WARD JACKSON | NAGS HEAD, 1972-73
ACRYLIC/CANVAS | 36 X 36 INCHES | FG© 137339
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WARD JACKSON | HOMAGE TO VERMEER, 1975
ACRYLIC/CANVAS | 36 X 36 INCHES | FG© 137350
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WARD JACKSON | RUHR, 1974-77
ACRYLIC/CANVAS | 36 X 36 INCHES | FG© 137352
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WARD JACKSON | CHESAPEAKE II, 1973
ACRYLIC/CANVAS | 36 X 36 INCHES | 137341
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WARD JACKSON | VIRGINIA (HEXAPTYCH), 1975-76
ACRYLIC/CANVAS | 72 X 108 INCHES | FG© 137337
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WARD JACKSON | VOLUME II, 1973
ACRYLIC/CANVAS | 36 X 36 INCHES | FG© 137346
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john ferren
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JOHN FERREN | FAHADREW, 1966-68 | OIL/CANVAS | 40 X 38 INCHES | FG© 207475
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JOHN FERREN | YELLOWSTONE YELLOW, 1966 | ACRYLIC/CANVAS | 50 X 56 INCHES | FG© 207481
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JOHN FERREN | GREEN DOMINANT, 1966 | OIL/CANVAS | 29 X 24 3/4 INCHES | FG© 137914
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JOHN FERREN | STUDY A, 1968 | OIL/BOARD | 12 X 24 INCHES | FG© 207487
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JOHN FERREN | UNTITLED, 1968 | ACRYLIC/BOARD | 12 X 24 INCHES | FG© 207486
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JOHN FERRENTWO MOONS, 1965ACRYLIC/CANVAS64 3/4 X 27 INCHESFG© 207480
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JOHN FERREN | SHELLY’S CHOICE, 1968 | OIL/CANVAS | 32 x 40 INCHES | FG© 207474
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JOHN FERREN | LIKE THE BIRTH OF VENUS, 1968 | OIL/CANVAS | 72 X 61 INCHES | FG© 207485
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JOHN FERREN | RIDING, 1969 | OIL/CANVAS | 52 X 40 INCHES | FG© 207478
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JOHN FERREN | TRIO, 1966 | OIL/CANVAS | 72 1/2 X 56 1/2 INCHES | FG© 207484
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