Spring resident artist Jarrod Beck presents about his drawing, sculpture, and environmental work across a 45-minute slideshow of images, followed by audience questions. This presentation is hosted by Frederico Câmara (Assistant Professor of Art, Photography) and Martha Poggioli (Professor of Practice, Interdisciplinary Art and Curation, and Pollock Gallery Director) and concludes Jarrod’s campus studio visits with MFA students of SMU Meadows School of the Arts. Happy Hour follows across the street on the patio at Los Charros: 6101 Hillcrest Ave, Dallas.

JARROD BECK

Drawing, Sculpture, Environment  -  Terlingua, Texas

Jarrod Beck is an installation artist, printmaker and sculptor. In 2011 he  traded sculpture for 5 acres of land in far west Texas and began a ground-drawing on the property. His practice is now centered in the Big Bend  where he explores the massive and fragile geological evidence of the deep time of our planet.

As an artist trained as an architect, he creates large scale spaces for the contemplation of our connection to the physical and spiritual realms of the universe. He studies the shared shamanic practices of the world and works with people to discover the inner resources they already have to sit with trauma and grief.

In Corsicana, Jarrod is creating a series of mural size drawings on handcast paper and canvas exploring connections between compressed geological layers of the earth and the unpeeling of the medically studied body. These drawings also instruct a series of occupiable “caves” created in paper pulp and pigment. jarrodcharlesbeck.com