Jacob Kincheloe uses drawing to explore desire and the curious nature of the physical body. His work engages elements of historical painting and photography, restaging and recontextualizing them through the subtle process of graphite drawing. Kincheloe’s detailed drawings express the struggle and pleasure of inhabiting a desiring body, and examine the peculiar performance of identity.
UP BEAT UP is a series of five small drawings. Delicate renderings of brutal acts, this work poses questions about flux and liminality, and pictures the challenge of belonging in between. Partnerless in dance and combat, these figures slip their singularity and break the boundaries of the body—blurring, exploding, becoming, disappearing. They are fragile and strong, frozen and in motion, very little and somehow very large.
