birth_place nationality field birth_date works article_title name
sacramento , california , u.s. american performance art 1939 the maid 's room / the dining room 2007 richard jackson -lrb- artist -rrb-
 richard jackson
richard jackson -lrb- artist -rrb-

richard jackson is an american contemporary artist born in 1939 in sacramento .
he now lives in los angeles , california .
he studied art and engineering at sacramento state college from 1959 -- 1961 and taught sculpture and new forms at ucla los angeles 1989 - 1994 .
since the 1970s jackson has developed in his work an interrogation of painting that combines conceptual procedures , humour and extreme disorder .
he expands the activity of painting , abandons its traditional instruments for machines , vehicles and everyday objects .
for this reason he has been referred to as a neo-dadaist .
jackson has brought the material dimensions of painting to extremes .
`` big ideas '' from 1981 consisted of hundreds of painted canvases stacked into a sphere of 5 meters in diameter .
his exhibition , `` the maid 's room / the dining room '' -lrb- 2007 -rrb- is a tribute to marcel duchamp 's last major work : etant donnés .
in 1999 he exhibited at the 48th venice biennale .
jackson 's recent solo exhibitions include , ` the little girl 's room ' , david kordansky gallery , los angeles ca , -lrb- 2011 -rrb- and ` accidents in abstract painting ' , the armory center for the arts , pasadena ca , -lrb- 2012 -rrb- .
the latter saw jackson fly and crash a radio-controlled , model military plane with a fifteen-foot wingspan , filled with paint , into a twenty-foot wall that read `` accidents in abstract painting . ''
the spectacle , free and open to the public , took place at pasadena 's arroyo seco .
in 2013 , he was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the orange county museum of art .
