Nightrise II

Date 2019
Technique Mezzotint
Price $400.00
Exhibitor Stone and Press Gallery
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b/w mezzotint

2019,

12 x 8

edition: 25

signed in pencil. 

Jacob Crook has received the Otis Philbrick Memorial Prize for this image. As part of the award, Crook’s work is being placed in the Print and Drawing Permanent Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Crook works primarily in the intaglio printmaking technique of mezzotint but also is trained as an observational oil painter and draftsman. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with emphasis in painting from the University of Missouri in 2009 and his Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from Syracuse University in 2014. Crook’s works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally, at the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts in Russia, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and in numerous academic institutions and private collections. He described his works as “primarily night-time, starkly lit streetscapes that act as empty stage sets, portrayed in such a way that they appear simultaneously long abandoned or soon-to-be entered, suggesting untold narrative possibilities just out of reach.”

Crook’s current work explores the similarities of these streetscapes to an abandoned shopping mall. Through this, he is looking at how relatively recent changes in consumer activity—from shopping downtown, to shopping malls, to online retail—can impact the appearance and experience of the built environment