Henry Jackson-Spieker
Points Of View
For myself, I’ve come to understand that, as an artist, at my core is an unrelenting relationship with persistence. We encounter the world daily, explore and experience all it has to offer up. We take it home and attempt to make sense in a critical, empathetic, ironic or romantic way with movement, beauty, lyrics, lines, form or rhythms. We re-imagine its impact on us. We build things up and fail often, turning deeply in and out of ourselves, lending a changing focus between our reality and perceptions. We again persist through asking, playing, standing and falling. Points of View, by Henry Jackson Spieker, evokes an authentic sense of nostalgia through a playful, thoughtful lens to consider place in his installation at Wa Na Wari.
The strategic suspension and placement of materials throughout the Greene family home provides an opportunity for a storied reflection of the space itself. As a viewer, you experience a distorted view of common areas of congregation. Space becomes skewed as does the reflection of the viewer within it. Points of View speaks very directly to change, perception and persistence. Spieker’s work is a layered site-responsive installation that punctuates the value, shifts and complex identities of the space it is housed.
-Eve Sanford for the Wa Na Wari Gallery Guide
The strategic suspension and placement of materials throughout the Greene family home provides an opportunity for a storied reflection of the space itself. As a viewer, you experience a distorted view of common areas of congregation. Space becomes skewed as does the reflection of the viewer within it. Points of View speaks very directly to change, perception and persistence. Spieker’s work is a layered site-responsive installation that punctuates the value, shifts and complex identities of the space it is housed.
-Eve Sanford for the Wa Na Wari Gallery Guide
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Henry Jackson- Spieker is a multidisciplinary artist, working and combining glass, bronze, steel and wood. His work explores tension, balance and symmetry through the use of contrasting materials. Early on Jackson-Spieker studied with a utilitarian approach gaining technical skills and understanding. Jackson-Spieker creates small sculptural series, site specific installations and large-scale public works. He currently has outdoor sculptures at the Seattle Center and at Cary Hill Sculpture Park in Salem, NY.
Jackson-Spieker is from and currently based in Seattle, WA. He received his BFA from Western Washington University and completed The Seattle Office of Arts and Culture’s Artist Boot Camp. He is the recipient of Grants from the New Foundation, WA, The Vermont Studio Center, VT, and the Chihuly Garden and Glass Scholarship. Along with his own artistic practice Jackson-Spieker is a glass blowing and bronze casting instructor at Pratt Fine Arts Center and a studio manager for the artist Marela Zacarias.
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