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•The Catch One: Tomashi Jackson & Robert Rauschenberg @theglasshouse_newcanaan
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Untitled Houston opens tomorrow! Find us in Booth B4 with work by Houston native Tomashi Jackson 🧡

A recent Wagner Fellow, Jackson’s two person exhibition with Robert Rauschenberg is now on view at The Glass House in New Canaan, CT. With a rigorous research based practice tracing personal, collective and systemic histories the artist’s work is layered in every sense. Utilizing motifs of signage and commerce Jackson’s signature “awning” frames gently extend off the wall and invite viewers to step into the space of her making.

Tomashi Jackson, “Life Like It’s Golden (Freestyle cypher in Leimert Park L.A., 1997/ Grime show in London, 2014)“, 2024. Courtesy of Pilar Corrias.
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Great Again.
And to think, some folks just wanted to hurt immigrants.

A young & very talented artist living in the Deep South working part time hours in food service just let me know that this is what it looks like at what was once the Department of Education as they try to navigate applying to graduate programs that would get them out of isolation and into an arts discipline focused environment to work.

Lately I've been feeling like the rising urgency I have felt since 2022 about the state of access to rigorous study and practice of the visual arts through educational access may be my own big feelings. My projects since 2013 have centered on my own attempts to visualize school desegregation legislative histories in the United States. One itch led to another until I finally saw that Voting Rights, Civil Rights, Educational Access, Arts & Humanities Access for the full development of all people in the U.S. no matter where located are all interconnected legislation.

Then I saw that the current full attack on all Civil Rights gains of 1960s-80s is actually rooted in the original resentment that American white supremacy has had since elders brought down Jim Crow: Desegregated Education/ Educational Equity/ Mobility through Education.

And this is what has kept me up many nights as I've seen the folding of historic fine arts departments and schools across the country. The plumes of dust and ash from the falling dominoes nipping at my own heels.

What will happen to the people like me who are born wanting to seriously focus on their calling to find their own shape in this world?

I've been told by some folks to only worry about myself but that runs counter to the cycle of arts and humanities mentorship that formed the rope ladder that has shown me a life I want to live. That's not how the arts and humanities WORK in a society.

An artist in Philly whom I got to have one year of graduate school with recently told me that he's read new studies that confirm that making art changes a person's molecules. That's the first value before beauty and commodity. Shaping humanity.

IG suggested Tupac's "Keep Ya Head Up" to attach to this post. Isn't that funny? taken in USA by @tomashi_ashi

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In the “2026 Wagner Arts Fellows” exhibition on view at Wagner Gallery, Tomashi Jackson’s 2022 works “Sweet Lorraine (Revolutionary Activity)” and “A Frustrating Paradox (The New Frontier)” combine painting, printmaking, sculpture, and archival research to examine “The Great Society,” President Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1960s domestic agenda created alongside the Civil Rights Act. In this case, Jackson uses imagery of the audience at a performance of “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” by Nina Simone at Morehouse College in 1969.

This is the first time the two works are being displayed together as Tomashi originally intended. The painting has become sculptural as the knitted stretched canvas leans against it with transparent vinyl strips continuing the imagery. Both pieces incorporate marble dust from Colorado’s Yule Quarry, the source of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., grounding the work in the unfinished project of democracy.

Come see it in Wagner Gallery through December 2! Open to the public by appointment only, Thursdays 11 am – 4 pm. 🔗 more info & to schedule a visit

📸: Flavio DeBarros (@flavio_d_photography)

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Tomashi Jackson (@tomashi_ashi) is a 2026 Wagner Arts Fellow. The Wagner Arts Fellowship supports mid-career to established Greater Boston visual artists with a $75,000 unrestricted grant and tailored artist services in partnership with United States Artists (@unitedstatesartists) strengthening the region’s arts ecosystem and affirming the transformative power of artists as catalysts for social change, locally and beyond.

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“2026 Wagner Arts Fellows: Tomashi Jackson, Lucy Kim, and Yu-Wen Wu”
📍 Wagner Gallery, 485 Massachusetts Ave, 2nd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02139
👥Open to the public by appointment only, Thursdays 11 am – 4 pm
🗓 On View: August 19 - December 2, 2026
🔗 More info & to schedule a visit

Tomashi Jackson. “Second Day (Nia in The Emerald City),” 2022. C-print mounted on sintra, 40 x 30 in. Courtesy of the artist and Tilton Gallery, New York.

📸: Flavio DeBarros (@flavio_d_photography)

Tomashi Jackson. “Sweet Lorraine (Revolutionary Activity),” 2022. Acrylic, Yule Quarry marble dust, and paper bags on canvas and tex by @tomashi_ashi

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24 days ago

📣 Now On View! “2026 Wagner Arts Fellows: Tomashi Jackson, Lucy Kim, and Yu-Wen Wu”

The Wagner Gallery exhibition celebrates the 2026 Wagner Arts Fellows, Tomashi Jackson (@tomashi_ashi), Lucy Kim (@slucykim), and Yu-Wen Wu (@yuwenwuart): three Greater Boston artists with rigorous attention to materials and research-based practices that investigate the social, technological, and political conditions that shape contemporary life.

Together, Jackson, Kim, and Wu reflect the depth and ambition of artists who have built nationally and internationally recognized careers while choosing Greater Boston as their creative home and community.

The Wagner Arts Fellowship supports mid-career to established Greater Boston visual artists with a $75,000 unrestricted grant and tailored artist services in partnership with United States Artists (@unitedstatesartists) strengthening the region’s arts ecosystem and affirming the transformative power of artists as catalysts for social change, locally and beyond.

“2026 Wagner Arts Fellows: Tomashi Jackson, Lucy Kim, and Yu-Wen Wu” was curated by Abigail Satinsky, Wagner Foundation Senior Program Officer & Curator, Art & Culture with Maggie Wong, Wagner Gallery Coordinator.

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“2026 Wagner Arts Fellows: Tomashi Jackson, Lucy Kim, and Yu-Wen Wu”
📍 Wagner Gallery, 485 Massachusetts Ave, 2nd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02139
👥Open to the public by appointment only, Thursdays 11 am – 4 pm
🗓 On View: August 19 - December 2, 2026
🔗 More info & to schedule a visit

📣 Now On View! “2026 Wagner Arts Fellows: Tomashi Jackson, Lucy Kim, and Yu-Wen Wu”

About The Artists: Tomashi Jackson
@tomashi_ashi

Tomashi Jackson grounds her vibrant, layered works in archival research into public infrastructure policy, combining painting, printmaking, sculpture, video, photography, and fiber. Her practice traces the intersections of color theory and political histories of segregation, voting rights, education, labor, transportation, and housing in the US and beyond. Jackson’s work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MOCA Los Angeles, and many others. She lives and taken in Central Square, Cambridge by @tomashi_ashi

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NYC through August 14, 2026.

These are the last days to see the incredibly timely "For it is our battle" at @galerielelong on W26the Street.

If you get there you will see why you will not have wanted to miss it. taken in Galerie Lelong, New York by @tomashi_ashi

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Mel Bochner.
Statement on Printmaking from 1975. Etching from 2008. by @tomashi_ashi

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@nightgallery looks forward to presenting work by Tomashi Jackson this fall at Untitled Houston! Find us in Booth B4 October 2-4, 2026 ✨

For Jackson, the presentation lands in Houston with particular resonance. Jackson, born in the city’s Third Ward, returns here with a body of work rooted in community testimony and local memory. The artist’s research-driven multimedia practice combines painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, video, and fibrework to explore how social histories and aesthetic theory are fundamentally entangled.

Tomashi Jackson, “The Talking Drum (Drummer singing and playing in Notting Hill 1976/ Audience at Club Alabam Central Avenue Los Angeles, 1953)“, 2024. Courtesy of Pilar Corrias.
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“The visual synergy between Rauschenberg and Jackson is a thrill to behold as their pieces take turns animating the gallery.” – @taliesinthomas

Upstate Diary’s Taliesin Thomas highlights “Tomashi Jackson and Robert Rauschenberg: The Catch One” at The Glass House in its latest exhibition round up. This is a rare experience to view newly commissioned works by artist Tomashi Jackson (@tomashi_ashi) in dialogue with works by Robert Rauschenberg from the historic site’s permanent collection and the Rauschenberg Foundation, installed in the unique Painting Gallery, designed by Philip Johnson. @rauschenbergfoundation

Read the review on @upstate_diary via the link in @theglasshouse_newcanaan bio ⤴

#theglasshouse #rauschenberg100

Get @reshare_app • @theglasshouse_newcanaan taken in New Canaan, Connecticut by @tomashi_ashi

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This is the last week to see “Material Witness,” a group exhibition of new and recent works by Candida Alvarez, Teresa Baker, Nicholas Galanin, Tomashi Jackson, Kapwani Kiwanga, and Brenda Mallory.

The exhibition, “Material Witness,” brings together artists who treat physical matter as an active archival record. Moving beyond pure abstraction, the works utilize materials to surface specific narratives. By interrogating the associations of their media, the artists transform the gallery into a site of testimony. Here, the “tactile” becomes a form of “telling,” revealing how histories are woven and layered into the very structures of the contemporary world.

The exhibition will close this Friday, July 24th.

@candida_alvarez_studio @tttttbaker @nicholasgalanin @tomashi_ashi @brenmallory

#CandidaAlvarez #TeresaBaker #NicholasGalanin #TomashiJackson #KapwaniKiwanga BrendaMallory PeterBlumGallery

Images: Installation view: “Material Witness,” 2026, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY by @tomashi_ashi

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🎙️ Join us tonight at #Ujimawednesdays for Realizing the Alternative: Black and Brown Women's Institutional Experiments

DM me for the hybrid zoom link if you need to.

Realizing the Alternative: Black and Brown Women's Institutional Experiments brings together organizers, founders, and movement builders who are reimagining what institutions are, and how they come into being.

Centering the work of Black and Brown women developing non-extractive financial systems and community-rooted infrastructure, this conversation asks what it means to build institutions that are accountable to people rather than profit.

Moderated by Nia K. Evans, and featuring Nwamaka Agbo, Noni Session, Nikishka Iyengar, and Ja'Net Defell, this conversation invites participants into a set of grounded questions about experimentation, formalization, and the possibilities and limits of institution building as a tool for liberatory practice.

📆 Tonight
📍 @shirley_eustis_house
⏰ 6:15 - 7:45PM EST
🌏 Hybrid
📋 Register at ujimaboston.com/events by @tomashi_ashi

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NYC Tonight! I am excited to have a painting in this Summertime Group Show at @galerielelong NYC!

🍇 "For it is our battle" is now on view at Galerie Lelong, New York! Join us for our opening reception from 5 to 7pm tonight. ⁠
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The exhibition parses methods of depicting the feminine body in the diverse practices of a multi-generational, international group of women artists, including Petah Coyne and Kathy Grove, Tomashi Jackson, Lin Tianmiao, Nalini Malani, Yoko Ono, Erin M. Riley, Martha Rosler, Pinaree Sanpitak, and Nancy Spero⁠.⁠
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Ranging from reverence for feminine forms, criticism of societal standards, and calls for political action, the works on view present a multifaceted perspective of womanhood, inextricably tied to the enduring fight for bodily autonomy, honoring women who, through their art, ask us to consider the realities of women's experiences in the face of an ongoing battle for dignity and agency.⁠
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Follow the link in bio to preview the exhibition.

Get @reshare_app • @galerielelong taken in Galerie Lelong, New York by @tomashi_ashi

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