Our First Friday Art Night continues with Jackson Gregory.
Jackson grew up in the Oldest House in Provincetown, MA, where his family was part of the sizable art
community. His parents and their artist friends encouraged Jackson in his early e orts at art making and after
graduating from High School he went o to study art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
(SMFA). Jackson spent most of the next ten years there as an undergraduate, then graduate student, then a
teacher. He began painting abstract paintings in acrylic in 1967 using underlying grids and basic geometric
forms: circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, etc. with an emphasis on color relationships.
Jackson has received a number of awards including: 47th Bartlett Traveling Fellow (SMFA) 1964; grant and
fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) in Provincetown, MA, ’67, ’68; Boskop Foundation Grant,
’71; Mass. Council for the Arts and Humanities; Somerville, Mass. Arts Council, ’83. He has shown his work at
Cornell University; Tufts University; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Boston Cyclorama; DeCordova Museum,
Lincoln, Ma; Brockton At Center, Brockton, MA; City Hall, Boston; FAWC, Provincetown, MA;
Provincetown Art Association; and numerous other venues. His work is in many public and private collections.