Published on the occasion of the artist’s first full-career survey at the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, Suzanne Jackson: Five Decades illuminates a career that spans more than 50 years, across painting, drawing, theater, costume design, dance, printmaking, and sculpture. The catalogue presents a unique selection of Jackson’s works and explicates their relationships to identity, community, the natural world, and the human body.

In addition to featuring new photo documentation and archival images, Five Decades includes essays that contextualize Jackson’s practice through the lenses of ecowomanism, materiality, an ethics of care, and African American retentions. Complicating canonical and exclusionary narratives and timelines, the publication opens up Jackson’s work to new generations of artists, thinkers, and doers to find inspiration in the singular contributions one person can make to collective culture.

Published by the Jepson Center, Telfair Museums. Soft cover, 160 pages. 49 color, 9 duotone, 28 bw. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.

Detail Elias Ressegatti, holding on to a sound (still), 2019. Video. Courtesy of Scott Cameron Weaver.