Auction with Daniel Cooney Gallery

Daniel Cooney is offering a one-off, 16X20, signed (in ink on the back) artist proof of my own Yarn #1 in an auction on iGavel.com. The bidding starts at a very reasonable $200. Please check it out! Auction ends August 6 at 1:05PM

http://bid.igavelauctions.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3045227

Plates #3 walkaround

Here's a (slightly primitive) iphone walkaround of my latest piece, Plates #3:

Plates #3 from Thomas Jackson on Vimeo.

PDN The Curator

I am very happy to report that I've won the "Installation/Still life" category in the "The Curator," Photo District News's annual fine art photography competition. The other winners are Greer Muldowney (Photo Essay/Reportage), Lindsay D'Addato (Nature/street photography), Bobby Davidson (Abstract/Mixed Media), Noah David Bau (Portraits/nudes) and Jeremy Underwood (Student work). Here's the online gallery, as well as some snaps from the spread in the PDN's July issue.

Tricycle magazine

I must confess I'd never looked at Tricycle (The Buddhist Review) until they featured my work in their Summer issue (accompanying an excellent essay by Henry Shukman). What a good looking magazine. Bill Armstrong is in this issue too, as is Sarah Palmer, whose work I like a lot.

Interview

Here's a nice little interview of me in East Tennessee State University's photo department blog, conducted by Lurah Lowery, who is a senior there.

Glow sticks #2 video

Here's a little video I shot of the actual piece. Watch for the 13 second mark, when I step in a hole and nearly hit the deck.

Glow Sticks #2 from Thomas Jackson on Vimeo.

Glow Sticks #2

Here's my newest piece, Glow sticks #2. It's shot in Stone Ridge, NY, and modeled after the mating swarms of midges, mosquitos and gnats, in which the males cluster in the middle, and the females buzz through from the margins, hoping to emerge with a new friend.