The Lower East Side Printshop is pleased to present a new publication with Matthew Day Jackson in collaboration with Master Printer Doug Bennett. Metamorphosis is an artwork that traverses several printmaking mediums, utilizes all kinds of materials, and assembles images from a diverse library of cultural references. The installation involves digital printing, collage, etching, screenprinting, gold leaf, hand-painting with Flavor-Aid, and is printed on wood, felt and found images.

Metamorphosis transitions from left to right in both its imagery and concepts, describing a capsule of moments relating to the American experience. Several themes run through the installation from our connection to the earth, mythology and historical figures and events of national relevance. Having grown up in the Reagan years, Jackson's work concerns his investigation into the American Dream. Visual references to the tragedy of Jim Jones and nuclear bombs are counter-balanced with "Lady Liberty" who ends the piece by representing a post-apocalyptic force of nature and a protector, with her roots spreading out and into the earth as if to stabilize and inspire rebirth. Metamorphosis implies that to abort and destroy is to renew and start afresh, as Shiva, destroyer of the world and purveyor of regeneration, carries out in the Hindu religion.

Metamorphosis has entered the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Matthew Day Jackson is based in New York, and recent solo exhibitions include Paradise Now! (The Salvage), Workspace: Matthew Day Jackson, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, Paradise Now! (Limbo) featuring "Looking for Mother Nature" Cubitt Artists Space, London, UK, Paradise Now! Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, and Oracle (Days of Future Passed) Mario Diacono at Ars Libri, Boston, MA.