Patron Magazine publishes a narrative survey of Beck’s studio work leading to Corsicana.
Jarrod Beck (spring 2026 resident) is an installation artist, papermaker and sculptor whose work explores the body’s relation to physical and metaphysical space. Trained as an architect, he creates large-scale environments that invite sustained contemplation, emerging from experiences of disorientation, grief, and the difficulty of sitting with the unknown. Jarrod treats drawing as a form of action—constructing a body, then acting upon it through abstraction, accumulation and erosion. Engaging handmade paper and canvas with oil bars of beeswax and pigment—alternately dense and scraping or fluid and painterly—he builds surfaces that resist immediate legibility. This work, springing from encounters with medical uncertainty and the estrangement of seeing the self from the outside, roams the ordinary and non-ordinary, the material and abstract like a terrain. Jarrod holds a M.Arch from Tulane University and a MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and his work is held in collections including the Museum of Modern Art. jarrodcharlesbeck.com
