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Aryel René Jackson


Artist Statement
Curriculum Vitae (CV)



    Forecasting
      A global story
      Inheritance
      Confuserella
        Printmaking
        Panels



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      ©2025  Aryel René Jackson Studio

      Bentonville Forecast: In the Square
      2019
      4:16 minutes
      A Welcoming Place
      2020-2022
      29:14 minutes
      What it means: iterations of a welcoming place
      2023
      HOST series at 
      The Contemporary Austin 
      Resonant Landscapes: Sci-fi Narratives and Historical Echoes
      2024
      Ivester Contemporary
       

      Forecasting is a multimedia exploration of how Black communities share knowledge to navigate safety and belonging, drawing on the tradition of “taking temperature” to assess environments through collective memory and historical awareness. Aryel René Jackson blends video, animation, sculpture, and archival imagery to examine the hidden ways Black and brown people experience and respond to systemic discrimination.

      In works like Bentonville Forecast: In the Square (2019), Jackson uses a weather balloon as a storytelling device, reflecting on how historical monuments shape public perception and space. A Welcoming Place (2020–2022) expands this inquiry by documenting East Austin’s gentrification through interviews, archival footage, and mixed media, likening oral histories to a radiosonde—an instrument that collects atmospheric data—suggesting that shared experiences function as predictive tools for community resilience.

      This body of work extends into Resonant Landscapes, where Jackson envisions a speculative meteorological system that evolves based on cultural data, blending video, sculptural installations, and stop-motion animation. Through aerial perspectives, tactile materials like soil and pumice, and historical references—such as images of Tuskegee pilots—Jackson creates layered narratives of environmental and cultural transformation.



      Turbulent passage

      2024
      72x36x8 inches
      Monitor Covers: Shaped construction foam, coated in
      chocolate loam topsoil, adhered to black plexiglass.

      Video: Three monitor video of “What it means” series
      of relief panels with dedicated Apple TVs.


      By reimagining technology as an ancestral practice, Forecasting highlights how Black and brown communities harness storytelling and historical knowledge as strategies of survival, resistance, and futurism.