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    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.

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    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…]

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July 3, 2017 – Recent and Upcoming Projects

20162016

October 9, 2016 – Four Current Exhibitions

20162016
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Five against Eight

Rodolfo 'Corky' Gonzales Branch Library
20162017
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August 1, 2016 – clerestory completed and upcoming projects

20162017
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clerestory

20152016
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September 21, 2015 – NeoRio and Rift/Shake

20152016
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Rift / Shake

20152016
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March 1, 2015 – Anderson Ranch Arts Center

20142015
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Gape

20142015
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Rift / Strait

20142016
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April 5, 2014 – Rounds in Springfield, OR – With Ethan Rose

20142015
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Rounds

20132015
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Vertical City

20122015
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Strait

20122015
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Still-Life & Tabletop

20122015
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Cloister Walk

20112015
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Loveland Feed & Grain

20112015
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Untitled Square

20112015
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Echo Pool

20102015
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Light Drift

20102015
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Works in Light

20092015
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Mount Hope Meadow

20082015
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Venus & Hephaistos

20082015
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Orbis Obscurus

20072015
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Childress House

20072015
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Brick Fold

20062015
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Sixteen Windows

20052015
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Panavisions

20042015
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Mars Survey Photographs

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