Work samples

  • Ancient
    Ancient
    ICABALTIMORE documentation 2020
  • Florida Storm
    Florida Storm
    Florida Storm. ICABaltimore documentation 2020
  • Fishtank
    Fishtank
    2018 Colored pencil on paper ICABaltimore documentation 2020
  • The Golden Pillows
    The Golden Pillows
    Part of a series from an exhibition in Orlando Florida

About David

Baltimore County
David Jackson

I was raised here in Baltimore and have been an artist for the past 10 years. I create as a release and a way to empty my head. These records of imagination from the past years begin to read, to me, as a diary. 

2020 ICA Baltimore documentation session Artist.
Creator of @Bmaartist on istagram. The official staff art instagram page of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Sold work to Rebecca Hoffberger, Director of the American Visionary Art Museum… more
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S/S 1991

Experimenting with custom flower paints. 
  • 2020 Digital Butterfly
    2020 Digital Butterfly
    Vector butterfly. 2020 Illustrator edit
  • Rose dye Butterfly Print
    Rose dye Butterfly Print
    Custom rose dyed rice paper.
  • Process. Paper tests
    Process. Paper tests
  • Process. Cooking
    Process. Cooking
  • Process. Straining
    Process. Straining
  • Custom butterfly 1
    Custom butterfly 1
  • Custom butterfly 2
    Custom butterfly 2
  • Piranha
    Piranha
    Custom paint.
  • Peacock Spider
    Peacock Spider
    Custom flower Paint
  • Rose Shark
    Rose Shark
    2020 Rose dyed paper with custom rose shark

Portrait

Gouache on paper. Marker, highlighter, white out and pencil on paper. Gold leaf details.
  • The Golden Pillow
    The Golden Pillow
    2020 BADAS documentation session with Institution of Contemporary Arts
  • Sport
    Sport
    Gouache on paper with gold leaf.
  • Olivia
    Olivia
  • Untitled
    Untitled
    Marker on paper.
  • Sketchbook
    Sketchbook
    2020 Sumi ink on toned paper.
  • Alice
    Alice
    While working for Disney, giving out wheelchairs. A man saw me drawing this and offered me my first gallery show.

Nostalgia

This series was made while working security at the American Visionary Art Museum. After my employment I sold a work to the director of the museum Rebecca Hoffberger.
  • Lucky Tree
    Lucky Tree
    2018 Colored pencil on toned paper
  • 90s
    90s
    Monkey fists and puffer jackets were stained in my head from the 90s
  • Storm
    Storm
    Colored pencil on toned paper.
  • Swamp
    Swamp
    This is a distorted memory of the fireflies I saw while living in Florida.

Origins

2020 Polymer clay 
2021 digital edit
  • The Monster
    The Monster
  • The Monsters Head
    The Monsters Head
    2021 Digital edit