
Exhibitions: Jackson Markovic KY

Jackson Markovic, "Pillowstrap", 2024. Archival pigment print, lighting gels, stainless steel lightbox, fluorescent bulbs, 40 x 30 x 5 inches.
Jackson Markovic
Supernature
April 18, 2025 - May 31, 2025
215 N Limestone
Supernature is infused with chemical reactions — inside darkrooms, inside plastics, inside desire itself. Boundaries dissolve between body and substance, image and material, pleasure and toxicity. The work metabolizes, pulses, and unsettles – mood stabilizers (Aripiprazole), photo processes (RA-4), and the slow alchemy of self-transformation course through its surfaces. The exhibition title references Cerrone’s 1977 disco track — a winding anthem about pesticides. The song’s form and content are almost antithetical, fusing lyrics that warn of toxic chemicals with rhythms that exude euphoria. Vitality and poison slip between one another.
Materially rooted in the surplus of commodity culture, Supernature repurposes second-hand remnants sourced from Metro Atlanta: expired darkroom paper, found acrylic scraps, vintage magazines, discarded lightboxes. Once a tool of seduction in advertising, the fluorescent glow of the lightbox is recontextualized, no longer selling products or lifestyles but illuminating fragments of Markovic’s personal archive, as he takes stock of his own accumulations, materially and emotionally. The lightbox composites beam with melded plastics, faded stains, fingerprints, and stand-in bodies that bear the markings of desire with the passage of time.
In a series of lumen prints, pages torn from 1980s collector porn magazines are exposed in sunlight onto outdated darkroom paper (1980s–2010s), triggering unpredictable chemical reactions. Glossy bodies dissolve into streaks of light and residue, their nostalgic value destabilized. In this fragmented reconstruction of the gay image, Markovic reflects on his place within a lineage shaped by both intimacy and loss. The AIDS crisis ripples forward and backward in time, its aftershocks reverberating across generations. Figures fracture, radiate, and flicker between ecstasy and disintegration. History compresses as past and present converge onto a single surface.
What lingers, what mutates, what fades? Supernature exists between transformation and dissolution, tracing the residues of touch, time, and chemical entanglement.
-Mattie Pieschel

Jackson Markovic, "Kiss", 2025. Archival pigment print, metal plumbing tape, stainless steel lightbox, fluorescent bulb, 40 x 30 x 5 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Rush 01", 2024. Charcoal, 11 x 8.5 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Rush 02", 2024. Charcoal, 11 x 8.5 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Rush 03", 2024. Charcoal, 11 x 8.5 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Gay Photography 01", 2023-2025. Toned silver gelatin lumen print, unique, 10 x 8 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Gay Photography 02", 2023-2025. Toned silver gelatin lumen print, unique, 10 x 8 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Gay Photography 07", 2023-2025. Toned silver gelatin lumen print, unique, 10 x 8 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Gay Photography 03", 2023-2025. Toned silver gelatin lumen print, unique, 10 x 8 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Fernando Redux", 2022-2025. Archival pigment print, lighting gels, artist's tape, window paint, stainless steel lightbox with acrylic bulbs, 40 x 30 x 5 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Car Stereo", 2025. Archival pigment print, window paint, vinyl car decal, in a stainless steel lightbox with fluorescent bulbs, 40 x 30 x 5 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Self portrait at 19 and 24", 2025. C-Print, 10 x 8 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Gay Photography 15", 2023-2025. Toned silver gelatin lumen print, unique, 10 x 8 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Dumb Glass", 2025. Silver gelatin print, fresnel lenses, duct tape, found acrylic, privacy window filters, lighting gel, hardware, stainless steel lightbox, 43 x 34 x 8 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Gay Photography 06", 2023-2025. Toned silver gelatin lumen print, unique, 10 x 8 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Gay Photography 14", 2023-2025. Toned silver gelatin lumen print, unique, 10 x 8 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Gay Photography 16", 2023-2025. Toned silver gelatin lumen print, unique, 10 x 8 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Gay Photography 09", 2023-2025. Toned silver gelatin lumen print, unique, 10 x 8 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Gay Photography 12", 2023-2025. Toned silver gelatin lumen print, unique, 10 x 8 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Gay Photography 04", 2023-2025. Toned silver gelatin lumen print, unique, 10 x 8 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Gay Photography 08", 2023-2025. Toned silver gelatin lumen print, unique, 10 x 8 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Gay Photography 11", 2023-2025. Toned silver gelatin lumen print, unique, 10 x 8 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Gay Photography 05", 2023-2025. Toned silver gelatin lumen print, unique, 10 x 8 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Gay Photography 13", 2023-2025. Toned silver gelatin lumen print, unique, 10 x 8 inches.

Jackson Markovic, "Gay Photography 10", 2023-2025. Toned silver gelatin lumen print, unique, 10 x 8 inches.













