“Across oceans, across continents, we have been a part of nature since the beginning,” the artist Suzanne Jackson has said. “There is a great deal of love and beauty in Blackness. There is nature within us.” Jackson was born in St. Louis in 1944, but her family soon moved San Francisco, and then to Fairbanks, Alaska. Multi-talented, she studied art and classical dance, later attaining an MFA in theater design from Yale’s School of Drama. For a time in 1960s Los Angeles, in her own gallery, Jackson showcased the work of Black artists such as Betye Saar and David Hammons. She eventually moved to Georgia, where for more than 30 years she has taught at the Savannah College of Art and Design. And she never stopped painting her lyrical visions of Black figures. This exhibition spans six decades of Jackson’s work, all centered on our intrinsic connection with the natural world. —Elena Clavarino