Matthew Day Jackson's famously interdisciplinary artwork employs a wide array of media. He has been known to use materials ranging from decommissioned military airplanes and car parts to sponge cake and abalone shell. At the centre of all of this is the human body and all its physical senses, the evolution of human thought, our faith in technology, and exploring the boundaries of our homo-centric world. Often monumental in scale, Jackson's work present both positive and dark sides of human experience, suggesting there is the potential in everything we do to create both beauty and horror, a dichotomy the artist has termed 'the Horriful.'
Matthew Day Jackson was born 1974 in Panorama City, California and lives and works in Brooklyn, NYC.