Jarrod Andrew Becker
Showing his work under the name, jabart.
1968 – Born in Kentucky
Jarrod Becker is a contemporary artist living & working in the Northern Kentucky, Greater Cincinnati area. His work resides in collections throughout the United States.
- Represented by Garner Narrative / Garner Large, Louisville, KY (garnernarrative.com )
– Current Exhibitions
June 19 – July 30, “Jersey Summer Exhibition”, St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, UK (group exhibition)
–Selected Past Exhibitions
2025 – FOD 2024 (Faces of Death), Brooklyn Grain, Brooklyn, NY (Group show and print release)
2025 – “SPLIT3”, Candid Gallery, London, England, UK (Turps Banana CC group exhibition)
2025 – “SPLIT2”, Cross Street Arts, Wigan, England, UK (Turps Banana CC group exhibition)
2025 – “Shifting Sands”, CCA Galleries International, St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands (group exhibition)
2025 – “Leavings”, Garner Narrative, Louisville, KY (solo exhibition)
2025 – “200C”, Us By Us Gallery, Covington, KY (group exhibition)
2025 – “SPLIT”, The Dispensary Gallery, Wrexham, Wales, UK (Turps Banana CC group exhibition)
2025 – Ensemble Theatre Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (group show)
2024 – Us By Us Gallery, Covington, KY (group show)
2022 – Y’alls Hootenanny, BLDG Gallery, Covington, KY (group show)
2014 – BLDG Gallery, Covington, KY (annual group exhibition)
2016 – South Street Gallery, Wilmington, OH (solo exhibition)
2015 – Covington Arts, Covington, KY (group show)
2010 – High Street Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (group exhibition)
2008 – Red Tree Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (group exhibition)
2007 – Southgate House Gallery, Newport, KY (solo exhibition)
2003 – Dicere Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (solo exhibition)
2002 – Gallery 109, Covington, KY (solo exhibition)
2001 – Art Omnibus, Cincinnati, OH (group show)
1999 – The Cove, Cincinnati, OH (solo exhibition)
1998 – Base Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (solo exhibition)
1995 – Thornapple, West Chester, OH (solo exhibition)
1994 – Base Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (group show)
1994 – The Attic Gallery, Newport, KY (group show)
Grants, Awards & Honors
Honorable Kentucky Colonel, 2022
Great Meadows Foundation Artist Grant recipient, 2017
Great Meadows Foundation Artist Grant recipient, 2015
Northern Kentucky Scholarship Exhibition, Third Floor Gallery, Northern Kentucky University, 1994-95
Bibliography
“Jersey Summer Exhibition 2025”
“Gallery / Life & Style in Jersey”, Shifting Sands, April/May, 2025
“William and Mary Review” College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 2009
“Citybeat Magazine” “bruder” show review, 2007
“CaGzine.com” Interview, 2007
“CityBeat Magazine”. Articulations: Inside Artists’ Heads, 2006
“William and Mary Review”, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 2005
“The Licking River Review”, NKU Publication, Highland Heights, KY, 1995
Somewhat of a Bio
I have been a wanderer of sorts doing everything from selling boutique wines to working a horse farm, to photographing muscle cars to building backdrops at a scene shop before delving into the world wide web and design, working in television media for a LOCAL CBS affiliate for 12 plus years.
While I’ve studied painting, drawing, and multiple media of fine art at Northern Kentucky University, Anthropology at the University of Cincinnati, and Political Science at Thomas More College, I do not hold a formal degree of any sort.
Being self-driven and opposed to indoctrination, I have always felt I had more to gain through a path of personal experiential education and the taking of chance artistically on my own time to fail and prosper.
During this time, never one to keep still, I founded an art & craft market event based out of Rabbit Hash, KY called Folksiders. I was a founding partner of a digital publisher called Willow Frog, illustrating digital interactive children’s books and I have since illustrated and published the hardback book, The Boy Who Wore a Dress.
Currently, I am the Artistic Director for an art and design consultancy studio in Covington, KY called BLDG (www.BLDGbrands.com).
Through this position, I have worked on well over 60+ murals, designing, illustrating and/or painting them. These murals can be found in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, and Tennessee.
I live in Erlanger, KY near the railroad tracks in an old 1880’s wood frame monster that sucks me dry of money, muscle, & effort while refueling myself with reading, digging in creeks and beaches, collecting stones and shells, cooking fresh food, keeping company with my wonderful family & friends, and making art.
On Inspiration
Inspiration: All can & will inspire.
The potential is present in everything: a word, the scent of warm wool, painted lines on a roadway, the tilt of a persons head, milk in ones cereal bowl.
You have to create inspiration, you have to search for it, design it; you have to want it. There must be a need to be dazzled, intrigued, overwhelmed, interested.
You have to take yourself on little crusades of curiosity and fulfillment.
You have to dig in the dirt to find it, you have to enjoy scratching through the surface, you have to sift the sand to find those things that many never see. Here lies the marvel of life.
The marvel is not in the luck of occurrence or the waiting to be hit over the head by surprise, but that which is found through your own personal search and thirsts for wonder.
And if you set about on this search, you will find that inspiration can be the beginning step of a path one cannot stray from.
And the most important step lies beyond inspiration, and that step is the process of creation. For it is there that lies salvation and ones definition as an artist and a human being.