Deborah Jack

B. 1970, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Lives in Cole Bay. St. Maarten and Jersey City, NJ

Venue

2429 St Claude Ave
New Orleans, LA 70117

Monday–Tuesday, Closed

Wednesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

About the Artist

Deborah Jack is a multidisciplinary artist whose work includes video installation, photography, and text. Her practice engages a variety of strategies for mining the intersections of histories, cultural memory, ecology, and climate change.

Jack received an MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2002. Her work has been featured in significant exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA; the Houston Center of Photography, TX; and other renowned institutions. In 2021, a retrospective, Deborah Jack: 20 Years, was presented at Pen + Brush in New York, NY. Her work is in the collections of Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; Des Moines Art Center, IA; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; and the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA. Jack was a 2023 Changing Climate Resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute and a Surf Point Foundation artist-in-residence. She is a recipient of a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (2024), a Soros Arts Fellowship (2023), a Jersey City Artist Grant (2022), and a Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists (2021). Jack is currently a Professor of Art at New Jersey City University.

Previous Works

Deborah Jack, the fecund, the lush and the salted land waits for a harvest...her people... ripe with promise, wait until the next blowing season (still), 2022.

7 channel video installation, 7:58 min. Installation view of Forecast Forms: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Nov 19, 2022 - Apr 23, 2023). Image courtesy of the artist.

Deborah Jack, fecund memories of sky and salt... the amnesia of a history unrehearsed, still lush... (still), 2022.

Single-channel video, 8:31 mins. Image courtesy of the artist.

Deborah Jack, fecund memories of sky and salt... the amnesia of a history unrehearsed, still lush... (still), 2022.

Single-channel video, 8:31 mins. Image courtesy of the artist.

Deborah Jack, Untitled I from Intertidal Imaginaries: The Resistant Geographies of the Shore(coast) in the Aftermath of Saltwater(storm surges), 2021.
Deborah Jack, Drawn by water: Sea drawings in three acts, Act One: Weight/Wait on the Water (still), 2018.

Single-channel video, 6:01 mins. Image courtesy of the artist.