When

Friday, April 10, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Where

VCU Institute for Contemporary Art
601 W. Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23220

A surrealist painting. In the foreground is a snake with its mouth wide open, and its body elongates and disappears into the background. There is a color wheel coming out of the snake's mouth. In the background is a dark cloud of smoke with shining stars for eyes. It has two green arms, and the left arm holds a wand with the color wheel on top.

Painting + Printmaking presents a visiting artist lecture by

Alex Jackson
Friday, April 10, at 12 PM
Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU
601 W Broad St, Richmond, VA 23220

Alex Jackson is an artist and writer in the Philadelphia area, forever working on “Color Theory for Ghosts,” a novel in three-dimensional space, each of its chapters unfolding in the form of an exhibition. He holds an MFA from Yale University, a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions and has had several solo exhibitions at Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston and Jenkins Johnson Gallery in New York. His work can be found in public collections at The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco.