Brian R. Jobe, Author at EUTOPIA

About the Author

Brian Russell Jobe (b. 1981) is an American artist, educator, writer, and independent curator. His studio focus is on sculpture, installation, and public art. Jobe's solo exhibitions/ projects have been on view at venues such as Mixed Greens Gallery (New York, NY), Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum (San Antonio, TX), the University of Wyoming (Laramie, WY), the University of Tennessee College of Architecture + Design (Knoxville, TN), and the McNay Art Museum (San Antonio, TX).

Born in Houston, Texas, Jobe received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Tennessee in 2004 and Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2006. After living in New York City for a time, he relocated with his wife, painter Carri Jobe, to Knoxville, TN.

Raymond Padrón
Easy Rider [2010]
Polychromed resin

THE END. Martyrs, rebels, sinners, saints, napping elderly retirees. We can’t predict our earthly death, but it will surely come. Raymond Padrón’s Easy Rider serves as a freeze frame to memorize one last great physical, philosophical exertion. It marks life at the zenith.

With blended associations, Padrón draws from the story of John the Baptist and Peter Fonda’s Captain America character from the 1969 film Easy Rider. Also, with allusions to cheap religious statuary, we behold only the cold artifact.

So we dream. Extreme. Or not.

~ Brian R. Jobe