Portfolio 2006
Homer Jackson and Sherman Fleming • The New Face of Uncle Tom
18" x 15" • Silkscreen
The Brodsky Center, formerly Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper
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Bios
Homer Jackson is an interdisciplinary artist from Philadelphia with a background in teaching and social service. His work is presented as installation, performance art, public art, video and audio. Jackson has performed or exhibited works at the the Painted Bride Arts Center and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia; at Hallwalls Arts Center in Buffalo, Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis, Art Center/South Florida in Miami Beach, Maryland Art Place in Baltimore, the Kitchen, Art In General and Aaron Davis Hall in New York City. Jackson has received fellowships from the Pew Fellowships in the Arts, Civitella Rainieri Foundation, Pennsylvania Radio Theatre, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, The Playwrights Center, Art Matters, and Franklin Furnace Fund For Performance Art. Homer Jackson lives and works in Philadelphia and currently serves as the publisher and editor of the artists’ newsletter, Shine: Conversations Between Artists.
Sherman Fleming earned a MFA from Hartford Art School and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has solo exhibitions at VIAP Galerie and International Visions Gallery in Washington DC, Nexus Gallery in Atlanta, and Louise Jones Brown Gallery at Duke University. The group exhibitions he participated in include Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa, Opera Gallery, Cairo and MOCA in Los Angeles. His performance work has been featured at Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis, Franklin Furnace in New York, and George Mason University in Virginia. Sherman Fleming has been a visiting critic at the University of Pennsylvania, and an artist-in-residence at the Virginia Commonwealth University. Fleming is represented by Galerie VIAP, the Netherlands.