Good Luck Jules: Solo Exhibition by Jules Jackson

Jules Jackson during his residency at Stove Works in Chattanooga

June 1st - June 22nd, Opening Reception June 1st from 1 PM - 9 PM

COOP Gallery is pleased to present a series of recent paintings by Chattanooga-based Artist, Jules Jackson. This ongoing body of work explores the universal human tendency to condense our lives into narratives. It follows a fictionalized Jules Jackson through the history that made him who he is, and the echoes of his future. What are the forces that created his values? His quirks? His ambitions? His many anxieties? A wide cast of characters drift in and out of his life. The images in this body of work blend fiction with real events, suggesting a story while refusing to nail down any specific plot-line. Is there a moral to this story? Only if the viewer imagines one.

Good Luck Jules investigates the forces that shape a person, including family lineage, environment, and random chance. It presents a thesis that the formation of a person begins before they are born, and continues after death.

More About the Artist

Jules Jackson is a Chattanooga-based painter and graphic artist. Building on a lifelong interest in cartoons, Jules explores his own transmasculine experience through a cartoonish vision of the human body that bends, stretches, and transforms. His current body of work is a series of self-insert paintings that construct a semi-fictionalized narrative of his life.

In May 2023, Jules graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with a BFA in Painting and Drawing and a BS in Communication. At the St. Andrews Center, a former Methodist church turned community arts hub, Jules helps organize the Exquisite Corps collage group and the new Union Ave. Residency program.