The Land Claim: Tomashi Jackson

Multidisciplinary artist Tomashi Jackson (b. 1980, Houston, TX) works across painting, textiles, sculpture, and video to place formal and material investigations in dialogue with recent histories of displacement and disenfranchisement of people of color, resulting in formalist compositions of exuberant color, bold geometries, and intricate layerings of material. Recent solo exhibitions include Brown II, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2021); The Land Claim at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (2021); Love Rollercoaster, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2020); among many others. She was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant in 2020.

A first generation Ukrainian American, Adriana Farmiga is an interdisciplinary artist and Associate Dean at the Cooper Union School of Art in NY, whose practice extends into spaces of: education, curating, and community advocacy. Farmiga received an MFA from Bard College in 2004, and has shown in group and solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times and Artforum, among other publications, and ranges from conceptual still life to video and mixed media sculpture.

Writer and strategist Lee Ann Norman loves to tell good stories about the arts in our everyday. Her scholarly investigations and creative yarns highlight an interest in designing spaces that allow people to learn about each other and themselves through the arts. Her writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including BOMB, Studio, the Studio Museum of Harlem’s magazine, and the Penn GSE Journal on Urban Education, and the Brooklyn Rail. Lee Ann studied art criticism and writing at the School of Visual Arts. She is currently based in New York.