A richly illustrated account tracing the full arc of contemporary painter Suzanne Jackson’s life and multifaceted artistic vision
First and foremost a painter, Suzanne Jackson has worked for six decades in a dizzying array of genres, including drawing, printmaking, poetry, dance, and theater design. Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love reveals Jackson’s achievements as a leading and influential artist who has been in dialogue with her contemporaries, from Betye Saar and Emory Douglas to Senga Nengudi and Mary Lovelace O’Neal.
This wide-ranging book illuminates Jackson’s work and its connections to nature, environmentalism, performance, feminism, and Black and Native traditions. It explores the way her innovative hanging acrylic works break the canvas; the role of dance and set design in Jackson’s practice; and her trailblazing Los Angeles art space Gallery 32, which she ran from 1968 to 1970, and which became a focus for a circle of fellow emerging artists. The book also features artist dialogues between Jackson and Nengudi, Saar, Fred Eversley, and Richard Mayhew, as well as a conversation between Jackson and SFMOMA painting conservator Jennifer Hickey.
Exhibition Schedule
SFMOMA, San Francisco
July 26, 2025–March 15, 2026
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
May 13, 2026–August 23, 2026
- ISBN10 0691261997
- ISBN13 9780691261997
- Publish Date 5 August 2025
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691261997