This Thursday, Daniels Faculty Alumnus Jesse Colin Jackson (MArch 2009) will celebrate the opening of his solo exhibition Radiant City at the Pari Nadimi Gallery in Toronto.

Focused on Toronto’s tower apartment neighbourhoods, Radiant City explores the evolving presence and status of these sites in our city: arrival destinations for incoming immigrant populations, essential housing for one quarter of the city’s population, the decaying location of much of Toronto’s urban poverty, products of modern ideologies gone awry, and locations of past glory, current dynamism, and future potential.

Radiant City
September 18 to November 1
Opening reception: September 18, 6:00-8:00pm
Pari Nadimi Gallery, 254 Niagara Street, Toronto

This new series of large-format still images evokes the designed and lived intensities of Toronto’s tower apartments, and their ubiquity and significance to the city. The exhibition marks Jackson's third show on tower neighbourhoods, which he has be photographing since 2006. The first, Landmarks and Monuments: Residential Complexes in Toronto's Periphery, was exhibited in the Daniels Faculty’s Larry Wayne Richard’s Gallery in 2007.

Last fall, Jackson started a new position is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University of California, Irvine, having previously taught at both the University of Toronto and OCAD University.

Jackson's creative practice centres on object- and image-making as discursive modes of architectural production. Educated as an artist, architect, and engineer, Jackson appropriates the images, forms, and conceptual apparatus found in the urban landscape. His work has been the subject of several solo and two-person exhibitions, including Automatic/Revisited (Toronto Design Offsite Festival, 2013); Figure Ground (Gladstone Gallery, 2011); Usonia Road (Larry Wayne Richards Gallery, 2009); and West Lodge (Convenience Gallery, 2009). Jackson has received funding from the Ontario Arts Council, the Centre for Innovation in Information Visualization and Data Driven Design, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In 2009, he was shortlisted for the Canada Council for the Arts Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners. He is a 2014 Hellman Fellow at the University of California, and, in partnership with collaborator Luke Stern, was the 2008—2010 Howarth-Wright Graduate Fellow at the University of Toronto.

For more information on the exhibit, visit Pari Nadimi Gallery's website.