At 81, Artist Suzanne Jackson Finally Gets the Major Museum Retrospective She Deserves

Suzanne Jackson was 75 when she had her first solo show in New York at Ortuzar gallery in 2019. It proved to be a watershed moment for the Saint Louis, Missouri-born, Savannah, Georgia-based artist, whose experimental œuvre began in the 1960s with ethereal watercolor-esque figurative paintings referencing the natural world around her. More recently her work has transported acrylic paint from the walls to the air in captivating constellations that incorporate found materials, such as nets, bamboo, and lace. These suspended sculptures, or “anti-canvases,” as Jackson calls them, made a splash at the 2024 Whitney Biennial and garnered further attention in “Suzanne Jackson. Somethings in the World” (2023-24) , a collaborative exhibition by Fondazione Furla and Galleria d’Arte Moderna in M