Saint John the Baptist, 2023 oil, acrylic, alkyd on canvas 17in x 20in
Jaik Everett Faulk is a contemporary artist and curator based in Lafayette Louisiana.
Rooted in Southern place and informed by his curatorial work, Faulk’s compositions embrace modernist abstraction, material exploration, and philosophical inquiry.
Concept, context and presence are the touch points around which painting and curation hinge.
Faulk’s studio practice is a rigorous investigation into process and history of painting. Forms of blocky geometric abstraction, waylaid sculptures and ghosts of Southern vernacular practitioners have begun to appear in recent compositions. These stowaway influences have allowed the works to find a new balance amongst the continual trajectory of Faulk’s practice.
In addition to his visual practice, Faulk maintains a thread of writing and reflection titled Studio Poems—a space for process-based notes, fragments, and philosophical impressions that inform and complicate the act of painting. This ongoing archive offers a transparent look into his studio logic and conceptual orientation.