Say Hello With Ronald Jackson

American artist, Ronald Jackson, is not a portrait artist. What he does is create images of people from the past, people he sometimes terms as ‘recent ancestors’, and he invites you to say ‘hello’ to them. He invites you to think about them - about the lives they must have been living, and about how you might relate to them. The portrait subjects feature Ronald’s signature mask (although stylized in his most recent works) and his direct, dead-on, unsubtle stare.

See some of his recent portraits here, and previous features here.

See more of Ronald’s work on his Instagram, website, and our previous features