Jameson Green was the third book I designed for Derek Eller Gallery. Featuring a broad selection of the extraordinary paintings of this young Brooklyn-based painter, the volume accompanied Jameson’s second show, With Regards, Without Regrets, at the New York City gallery in September 2022.

Jameson creates psychological parables rendered in a visual language steeped in the grandeur of art history, inflected with comics and illustration and filtered through a highly introspective lens. Sampling art-historical references ranging from Jacob Lawrence and Bill Traylor to Crumb, Picasso, Goya, Guston, Kokoschka, and Rubens, he conjures a form of visual hip-hop infused with tremendous momentum and energy. Since receiving his MFA from Hunter College in 2019, Jameson has refined his remarkably evolved practice, boldly deploying the imagery of racism in what he describes as “a representation of corruption in pursuit of power, racial division, bigotry, and through these things personal suffering.”