Downtown Raleigh Alliance

Herb Jackson’s Veronica’s Veils series began in 1980. To date there are nearly two hundred paintings in the series. Jackson’s Artspace exhibition presents Veils ranging from 1985 through the present. The large-scale works on canvas are comprised of nearly one hundred layers of acrylic paint mixed with fine pumice. Layers are applied and scraped off, incised with a variety of tools such as palette knives and nails. For Jackson, Veronica’s Veils represent the meditative, almost mystical quality of creating works of art, whereby the process holds as much significance as the final paintings. Herb Jackson lives and works in Davidson, NC, where he currently serves as the Douglas C. Houchens Professor of Art at Davidson College. In 1999, Jackson was awarded the North Carolina Award, the highest civilian honor bestowed upon an individual by the state of North Carolina. Jackson’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US, as well as internationally including in England, Peru, Portugal, New Zealand, Brazil, the Soviet Union, Switzerland, Italy, and Canada. Jackson’s work is in over one hundred museum collections including in the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; and the British Museum, London, England. 

Cost: Free