Portfolio

Ethan Jackson is a visual artist and designer working with light, optics, and images. His projects include immersive optical installations in architecture, still and moving imagery about place and perception, interactive & generative digital works, photography, and video. Look at the Overview page, read current News or explore the various projects below.
News

July 3, 2017 – Recent and Upcoming projects: Transcending Time in Taos, New Mexico, and new Architectural Optics in Oregon. In April, Ethan was invited to a short residency at the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology on the Orgon coast, where he prepared a new sound-reactive video project for the Taos Chamber Music Group’s May performance Transcending Time. During the [more…]
Overview

Ethan Jackson is a visual artist and designer working with light, optics, and image. His projects include immersive optical installations in architecture, still and moving imagery about place and perception, interactive & generative digital works, photography, and video. His practice has grown from photography to installation, sculpture and beyond, with an underlying interest in optics and [more…]
Architectural Optics

Architectural Optics includes installations in interior space using light as material, composed or sculpted by simple optics- lenses, mirrors, and the surfaces of rooms. The works are unique to their sites, uniting interior space with the surrounding landscape, and creating contemplative environments where viewers’ perception slowly expands. Ethan Jackson’s large-scale optical installations transform interior architectural [more…]
Photography

Jackson’s early interest and formal training in photography led to an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He works in traditional darkroom techniques as well as digital, and his interest in the underlying history, physics, and theory of photography, optics and visual perceptions have led him into experimental installations with optics. His photographic [more…]
Video & Digital

Video & Digital works include video installations and digital projections that are created by computer, either in response to viewer’s presence or actions, or based on factors like sensor input or randomness. The works have no set dimensions and are always being re-created in a unique form. They offer an appealing mystery to curious viewers, [more…]

July 3, 2017 – Recent and Upcoming Projects

October 9, 2016 – Four Current Exhibitions

Five against Eight

Rodolfo 'Corky' Gonzales Branch Library

August 1, 2016 – clerestory completed and upcoming projects

clerestory

September 21, 2015 – NeoRio and Rift/Shake

Rift / Shake

March 1, 2015 – Anderson Ranch Arts Center

Gape

Rift / Strait

April 5, 2014 – Rounds in Springfield, OR – With Ethan Rose

Rounds

Vertical City

Strait

Still-Life & Tabletop

Cloister Walk

Loveland Feed & Grain

Untitled Square

Echo Pool

Light Drift

Works in Light

Mount Hope Meadow

Venus & Hephaistos

Orbis Obscurus

Childress House

Brick Fold

Sixteen Windows

Panavisions

Mars Survey Photographs