Monkeys
Monkeys was the first painting Jackson produced that utilises the artist’s technique of abstracting figures through a unique process of assembling multiple found sources and distorting their original form. This hybridised process combines culling photographs from internet search queries that reference Jackson’s own connections to Caribbean culture, and digitally manipulating them with editing software, thereby creating a compositional template for the images’ translation into the artist’s finished work.
About the Artist
John Reno Jackson
b. 1995
John Reno Jackson is an emerging contemporary Caymanian painter. He attended foundation courses in painting and drawing at the London Art Academy in 2015. Since then, he has continued his painterly explorations through a series of abstract works made in Grand Cayman. Jackson has exhibited at Paulo – PADA Studios in Barreiro, Portugal, where he attended an artist’s residency in 2020, and at Artisan Space in London, UK. His work is in the permanent collection of NGCI, where it was featured in the exhibitions Island of Women: Life at Home During Our Maritime Years (2020), Reimagined Futures – 2nd Cayman Islands Biennial (2021) and The People’s Collection – A 25-Year Cultural Legacy (2022).
