JARROD BECK - Drawing, Sculpture, Environment - Terlingua, Texas
HAI-WEN LIN – Sculpture, Installation - Chicago, Illinois
S. ERIN BATISTE - Interdisciplinary Poetry – Brooklyn, New York
JARROD BECK – Terlingua, Texas – 2nd Floor Studio
Jarrod created a series of mural-size drawings alongside a series of occupiable paper pulp “caves” whose continuous, enclosing forms invite a loss of bearings—and finding one’s way through.
Jarrod Beck 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.
HAI-WEN LIN – Chicago, Illinois – 3rd Floor Studio
Hai-Wen developed their largest kite to date in preparation for an exhibition at the Knoxville Museum of Art in Fall 2026. Drawing on quilting and patchwork traditions across Chinese and American histories, the wearable form—composed in part from community-gifted textiles—references the traditional Chinese “cloud collar,” bringing the sky into intimate proximity with the body.
Hai-Wen Lin is an artist living somewhere beneath the sky. Their work explores the body’s attunement to its environment, moving through metaphor, etymology, material histories, and the passage of time. Their practice seeks to unsettle fixed markers of identity and to offer an orientation of the self instead through elemental conditions—wind, sun, and sky as relational anchors. Straddling fine art, design, and craft, and working through sewing, draping, and assembly, Hai-Wen approaches kitemaking through the language of fashion. Centered at the crossroads of sculpture and garment, the kite becomes a link between states—body and atmosphere, grounding and flight—a tether for wishes and a meditation on the Taoist notion of non-action. An alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Hai-Wen received a M.Des from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from the University of California, Davis, and is the recipient of recent honors including the Museum of Art and Design’s 2025 Burke Prize.
S. ERIN BATISTE – Brooklyn, New York – Writing Studio
S. Erin has worked between two projects: the final delicate revisions of her debut poetry manuscript, Hoard, which examines the afterlives of the late 20th-century Black American Dream, and the completion of collages for her richly wrought And The Glory Will Be Revealed (University of New Orleans Press), which works to reclaim early 20th-century images of Black women and girls with attentiveness and care. Arriving with an archive in tow, Batiste has folded in materials gifted by the community—among them unique images of Black Victorian Texan women—expanding the work into a living, local constellation of memory and devotion. New poems have also emerged.
S. Erin Batiste is an interdisciplinary poet and artist whose practice is rooted in accumulation, maximalism, and the poetics of the archive. Drawing on beauty, otherworlds, migration, divination, and Americana, her work centers Black women while tracing the entanglements of memory, inheritance, and what remains. Her multifaceted practice encompasses poetry and collage, layering and refracting language and image. She is a 2025–2028 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Literature and has received support from Cave Canem, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University.
Open Studios, April 25, 2026
