Herb Jackson


Herb Jackson is an artist and Douglas Houchens Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of Art Emeritus at Davidson College. He retired from teaching in 2011. In 1999 he was awarded the North Carolina Award, the highest civilian honor in the state, by Governor Jim Hunt of North Carolina. In 2015 Jackson was awarded the North Caroliniana Society Award for extraordinary contributions to North Carolina's cultural heritage.

Life

Herb Jackson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina on August 18, 1945. Throughout his childhood he was a regular at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh and won his first award for art in a juried exhibition there in 1962, while a student at Needham B. Broughton High School. He received his undergraduate degree in German from Davidson College in 1967 and studied abroad at Philipps University in Marburg, Germany for a year. Three years later he earned his master's degree in fine arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1970. In 1969, while finishing up his graduate studies, Jackson began teaching at Davidson. In 1982 he was awarded an endowed chair in art, a position which he held until he retired in 2011. Jackson has had more than 100 single-artist exhibitions in several countries, including England, Portugal, and Peru. Some of Jackson's work was chosen to be included in the first exhibition of contemporary American art to be presented in the former USSR. Jackson's work is now in more than 80 collections including the British Museum in London and the Brooklyn Museum in New York City.

Family

Jackson is married with two sons. He and his wife Laura live in Davidson, North Carolina.

Art

Jackson's art is almost entirely abstract and non-representational. He is most known for his paintings, both larger works on canvas and smaller on board, and also for his oil crayon drawings on paper. He has also done a number of prints using and digital media.

Currently on display

Work by Herb Jackson may be viewed at the following galleries: