I would like to announce a few of my current and upcoming exhibitions: I recently returned from Key West, FL where two students and I installed The Redemptive Quality of Life for Sculpture Key West 2010. You can view the images at www.jacksonmartin.com/RQL.php. Travis Graves and I will be installing a site-specific piece titled, Time and Disregard at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, MI. The show opens February 5th and runs thru March 5th. For more information, visit www.uica.org. I will also be involved in an exhibition that focuses on sustainability and the environment titled, The Earth is Flat and Other Truths About the Environment at the Park School in Baltimore, MD. For more information, visit www.parkschool.net/arts. And as always, thanks for your support.

I would like to announce the opening of Sculpture Key West 2010. This year’s exhibition was curated by New York-based critic, Lilly Wei. The show begins on Saturday, January 16 and will be on view until April 16, 2010. My site-specific sculpture will be placed near the grove of pine trees at Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park. For further details go to www.sculpturekeywest.com/

My fellow visiting faculty members and I have an exhibition open at the Tipton Gallery in downtown Johnson City. If you are in the area between now and December 5th, please check it out.

I recently installed a new piece of sculpture for an exhibition at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The show runs from August 17th thru October 4th with a closing reception and gallery talk. Objects on the Horizon features six TN based sculptors working in a range of media from organic materials to electronic video and audio. If you are in the area please check it out. Check out the images on the gallery website: www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu/a>

I will be participating in the Baltimore Sculpture Project again this year with Rooted, the piece that I had at Sculpture Key West 2009. It will go up late June and be on display until May of 2010. If you are in the area, check it out. I will also be included in an exhibition at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in August with two new sculptures. I will post an update when I learn more details.

Travis Graves and I just returned from New York City where we set up a collaborative installation for the show, Spctclr Vws. This exhibition will be up thru June 7th and can be viewed Saturdays & Sundays, noon to 6. Also, check out the article in The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/realestate/10posting.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=One%20Brooklyn%20Bridge%20park&st=cse

I would like to announce two of my upcoming exhibitions. The first is Sculpture Key West 2009. The show will feature installations that were selected by a jury led by Shamim M. Momin, Associate Curator of the Whitney Museum in New York and co-curator of the 2008 Whitney Biennial. The majority of the artworks will be installed at Fort Zachary Taylor State Park, which opens March 1 (this is where my sculpture will be located) and West Martello Tower, which opens Jan 18, 2009. The show closes on April 18, 2009, at all locations. For further details go to: www.sculpturekeywest.com/. The second will be a solo show entitled Threshold located in Hanchey Gallery 2 on the campus of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The opening reception and artist talk will be held March 12th and the show will close on April 4th. For further details go to: www.nsula.edu/art/.

I would like to announce an important event happening in the very near future. On November 5th, the New York-based band, Agua Trip will be releasing their new album, Genetics, in Times Square. In addition to live music there will be an art exhibition/fundraiser of 20 artists who have created work that visually represents the band’s music. This event will support CONNECT, a non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention and elimination of family and gender violence. For more information go to AguaTrip.com.

I successfully installed my Artscape sculpture a couple of weeks ago and it will be up until April of 2009. It is located at the edge of Patterson Park on the corner of Eastern Ave. and Linwood St. in Baltimore, MD. The install was one of the most difficult and challenging that I have ever had to face. The end result is a bit different than I expected and in some ways, uncharacteristic of my previous work. Nonetheless, I am proud to put my name on it and hope you get a chance to check it out.

I am about to finish up my residency here at the Vermont Studio Center. It has been a productive month and I will post the artwork that I have completed on my site very soon. Also, my proposal for the Baltimore Sculpture Project was accepted. I will install the piece in Patterson Park in early July and it will be up until May of 2009.