Johanna Jackson

Johanna Jackson transforms painting, textiles, ceramics, and sculpture into poetic environments that dissolve the boundaries between art and everyday life. Her practice is rooted in a deeply personal exploration of domestic space, folk aesthetics, and improvisation, often reimagining humble materials into lyrical, tactile works. With an intuitive approach, Jackson embraces imperfection, spontaneity, and repetition, allowing each work to feel both handmade and alive with human presence. Textiles, stitched forms, and hand-painted surfaces play a central role in her process, merging craft traditions with contemporary art concerns. She often brings together objects that suggest a lived-in intimacy—blankets, ceramics, or wall-hangings—reframed as art that carries memory, warmth, and storytelling. Jackson’s practice expands into installation as well, creating immersive spaces that invite viewers into her vision of the everyday as a site of beauty, humor, and reflection. Her work reflects an ongoing dialogue between individual expression and shared cultural histories. By weaving together craft, folk traditions, and modern sensibilities, Jackson builds worlds that question hierarchies of value and challenge the distinctions between art, life, and labor. Each piece resonates with an openness, generosity, and an insistence that the personal is inseparable from the poetic. ...