Gerald Jackson’s The Rooftop Paintings at 255 Bowery is currently on view at Parker Gallery in Los Angeles. The presentation focuses on Jackson’s paintings and works on paper produced in the early 1980s.

Gerald Jackson lived in an industrial loft on the Bowery in New York City from the last 1960s to 2002. It was here that the rooftop became a central motif and structure in this singular series of works.

Gerald Jackson (b. 1936 in Chicago, IL, lives and works in Jersey City, NY). Recent solo exhibitions include those held at Gordon Robichaux, NY (2025), Kienzel Art Foundation , Berlin (2025), White Columns (2021) and Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba House, NY (2020). In 1983, the artist’s work was included in the historic The Black and White Show, curated by Lorraine O’Grady at Kenkeleba Gallery, New York. Other signficant group exhibitions include Painted in New York City: Viewpoints of Recent Developments in Abstract Paintings, curated by James Little, Hofstra Museum (2001), Jus’ Jass: Correlations of Painting and Afro-American Classical Music, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY (1983), and New Black Artists—circulating exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (1971). His work is included in the collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, and Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 

The exhibition runs until August 15.