The People: Richard Jackson & Sinead Finnerty-Pyne Ep. 28
Richard Jackson was born in Sacramento, California in 1939. He was one of the artists included in the 1992 exhibition, Helter Skelter at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. His work has featured in numerous group exhibitions including the 48th Venice Biennale. Jackson's work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition entitled Ain’t Painting a Pain at Orange County Museum of Art. Recent solo shows include Richard Jackson – CAR WASH, CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium (2014), New Paintings, Hauser & Wirth, London, England (2014), and Accidents in Abstract Painting, the Armory, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (2012).
Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne has been the Assistant Curator/Gallery Manager at Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena since 2007, and is currently an MA candidate in the Museum and Curatorial Studies Program at Cal State Long Beach. She has produced a number of exhibitions and projects with artists such as Richard Jackson, Bruce Nauman, Barbara T. Smith, Yoko Ono, and Chris Burden. Curatorial projects include Richard Jackson, Accidents in Abstract Painting, The Armory (2012). She is currently organizing a nine-part series about the cross disciplinary nature of painting entitled Expanding on an expansive subject.