{"id":32833,"date":"2024-10-31T16:30:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T20:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=32833"},"modified":"2024-10-31T16:30:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T20:30:55","slug":"tomashi-jackson-time-and-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=32833","title":{"rendered":"Tomashi Jackson, Time and Space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week, my 50 undergraduate students and I visited the exhibition &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/artgalleries.tufts.edu\/exhibitions\/202-tomashi-jackson-across-the-universe\\\">Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe<\/a>&#8221; at the Tufts University Art Gallery. They looked carefully and derived many insights from the work of this important artist. I highly recommend the show, which is open until Dec. 8 and free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I illustrate this post with a photograph of Jackson&#8217; 2020 work entitled &#8220;Time and Space (1948 End of Voter Registration Line)(1965 LBJ Signs the Voting Rights Act).&#8221; The photo does little justice to the original object, which is monumental (more than seven feet high) and structural, a multi-media painting mounted on a tilted wooden frame. In the photo with this post, you can see the shadows that the object casts on the gallery wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The materials listed on the gallery&#8217;s label are: &#8220;Acrylic, Pentelic marble, Ohio Underground Railroad site soil, American electoral ephemera, and paper bags on canvas and fabric.&#8221; Jackson collected the marble dust near the Acropolis in Athens, birthplace of democracy. The whole work is overlaid with red-white-and-blue stripes that are slightly askew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We discussed the composition: Black citizens waiting to register to vote in Atlanta in the 1940s (at the top); recent election flyers (at the bottom); and in the middle, LBJ signing the Voting Rights Act. The President is larger than anyone else. Does that mean that he played a pivotal role? Or that his importance is overplayed in conventional accounts of American history? Is he responsible for the law, or was that really an outcome of a process that began with the people at the top of the picture?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, my 50 undergraduate students and I visited the exhibition &#8220;Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe&#8221; at the Tufts University Art Gallery. They looked carefully and derived many insights from the work of this important artist. I highly recommend the show, which is open until Dec. 8 and free. I illustrate this post with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32833"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32853,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32833\/revisions\/32853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}