Jackson Fine Art is excited to kick off our thirtieth anniversary year with upcoming exhibitions celebrating women at work — as artists, curators, gallerists, and everyday people keenly observed through windows and on the street. Gail Albert Halaban’s new series Italian Views — with an accompanying monograph from Aperture (2019) — extends the photographer’s Out My Window project to the cities of Venice, Rome, Naples, Palermo, Florence, Lucca, and Milan, collaborating with pairs of neighbors in these cities to create visual short stories that the viewer is invited to write for herself. 

In addition to Halaban’s solo exhibition will be 30 Years of Women, a group show of works selected by gallery founder Jane Jackson and current owner Anna Walker Skillman. Drawing from Jackson Fine Art’s thirty-year history of showing some of the most distinguished female voices in 20th and 21st century photography, Jackson and Skillman have co-curated a show illustrative of the gallery’s evolving vision and the strong female relationships that have defined Jackson Fine Art through the years. In the viewing room, Skillman looks forward with a selection of photographs from some the most important artists of our contemporary moment. 

On the evening of Friday, February 7th, from 6-8 pm, we’ll hold our traditional opening reception. On Saturday, February 8th at 11am, Gail Albert Halaban will give an artist talk, followed by questions and a book signing with the artist. 

Additional programing in celebration of the gallery’s 30-year milestone will be announced throughout 2020. 

Gail Albert-Halaban, who lives and works in New York, began photographing when she was 6, when she made a camera for her first grade science fair. Her art explores the tension between public and private life, what is seen by all, and what is hidden. The series Out My Window is a collection of images taken through and into windows in New York City, a project that earned her international recognition in 2012 and which she continued in 2014 with Vís a Vís Paris’ haunting exploration of that city’s windows, and now with Italian Views. In these Hitchcock-ian tableaus, she acknowledges unspoken voyeurism and exhibitionism, tells us to admit we all do it, and then pushes us to confront the hope, isolation and other emotions that lie behind the gaze. As Francine Prose notes in her foreword to Italian Views, Halaban’s photographs allow us “to consider, more dispassionately and lucidly than if we were actually spying, what it means to witness a moment in the private lives of strangers.”  

Contact To

 arrange interviews with Gail Albert Halaban, Jane Jackson, or Anna Walker Skillman, and to request high resolution images, please contact Coco Conroy: [email protected]. 

Jackson Fine Art is located at 3115 East Shadowlawn Ave. NE, Atlanta, GA 30305. For more information about Jackson Fine Art and our artists, visit jacksonfineart.com.