Oliver Lee Jackson between figuration and abstraction

At the age of ninety, Oliver Lee Jackson continues to explore one of painting’s most enduring questions: the unstable boundary between figuration and abstraction. The exhibition brings together paintings from recent decades alongside a previously unseen multi-panel screen, offering insight into a practice that for more than sixty years has been defined by layered and highly dynamic compositions. Within Jackson’s works appear his well-known figures, the so-called “paint people,” emerging from fields of color and movement. Created with oil paint, chalk, and spray-painted stencils, these presences sometimes gather in small groups, at other times appear alone in essential gestures - crouching, reclining, or interacting with one another - within complex pictorial spaces that invite slow and open interpretation. At the center of the exhibition is a tripartite screen painted on both sides and conceived as a movable element that can be arranged in multiple configurations. The work continually shifts the relationship between figure, landscape, and abstraction, transforming the painted surface into a spatial device that challenges the boundaries between painting and sculpture.