Jarrod Beck
Brooklyn, NY
Residency: May – June 2014
Project Description
I used my time at Sculpture Space to create several layered paper works: some meant as discrete, wall- mounted reliefs and others for a installations. The work was shown in “No More Birds,” curated by Gina Murtagh at the Kirkland Art Center in Clinton, NY. It will be reconfigured and added to for an installation at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in the fall of 2014. The wall reliefs incorporate paper from my residency at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. The material, the last of the artist's stock found at his studio after his passing, was dyed to a bruise, layered and carved into. The larger pieces build on an installations created in Provincetown, MA in the winter of 2014: Sweet Burrowing, OURENORMOUS HEREAWAYFROMHERE and FALLS, a collaboration with Mark Louque.
During my time at Sculpture Space I was awarded the NYC Parks Department's Clare Weiss Emerging Artist Award and used the facilities at Sculpture Space to develop my project "Uplift" for Sara D. Roosevelt Park in New York's Lower East Side.
About the Artist
Jarrod Beck has created installations at Socrates Sculpture Park, Wave Hill Garden and Cultural Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, South Street Seaport Museum, Lawndale Art Center, Instituto Cervantes NY, Cape Cod National Seashore and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. He has been an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony, Robert Rauschenberg Residency, Fine Arts Work Center, Vermont Studio Center, Robert Blackburn Print Workshop, and Lower East Side Printshop. In 2012, Beck began a series of installations with related processions; the most recent incarnation, Balance, was supported by the US Embassy in Venezuela and hosted by the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas in November 2013. Beck's drawings are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, and in 2013 he presented Strike Slip solo exhibition curated by Hesse McGraw at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Born in Albany, NY, he now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
