statement
"As an artist I have always felt my task is not to create meaning, but to charge the air so that meaning can occur." – Todd Hido
The quality of light cast into a space has the potential to bring poetry to the prosaic, magic to the mundane, and beauty to the banal. The light spilling through these nocturnal landscapes serves as a sort of spotlight, transforming the scenes into empty stage sets either soon to be entered or perhaps long abandoned, suggesting the possibility of untold narratives that are just out of reach. My intent is not to tell a story directly, but to set the stage in such a way that viewers are compelled to consider the moments before and after the one presented based on their own associations with the imagery.
bio
born: 1985, St. Louis, Missouri
education
University of Missouri, Columbia, BFA, 2009
Syracuse University, MFA, 2014
selected awards/honors
Marion Behr Printmaking Award, Syracuse University, 2014
Creative Opportunity Grant, Syracuse University, 2014
William B. Ittner Sr. Fine Arts Scholarship, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2009
selected publications
The Hand Magazine; Issue #3, Prairie Village, Kansas, 2014
Fort Wayne Museum of Art; 2012 Contemporary Realism Biennial. Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2012
Manifest Gallery; 2nd International Painting Annual. Cincinnati, Ohio, 2012
Manifest Gallery; 1st International Painting Annual. Cincinnati, Ohio, 2011
selected solo or two-person exhibits
Thoreau Gallery, Mezzotints by Jacob Crook, Rindge, New Hampshire, 2015
Evelyn E. Jorgenson Fine Arts Gallery, Looking Over the Overlooked, Moberly, Missouri, 2011
Boone County Bank Gallery, Works by Jacob Crook, Columbia, Missouri, 2010
selected group shows
Hays Art Council, Finding Balance, Hays, Kansas, 2015
Cole Art Center, Texas National 2014, Nacogdoches, Texas, 2014
Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University, 26th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, Lake Charles, Louisiana, 2013
National Arts Club, New York Society of Etchers 2nd National Exhibit of Intaglio Prints, Gramercy Park, New York, New York, 2012 |
