BIO
Jack Eubanks was born in 2002 in St Louis, Missouri and grew up in Oakland, Tennessee. Living in a rural small town in the Midsouth, he was made aware of the structural dynamics of the social systems that existed within his environment. In 2025, he received his BFA in Fine Art with a concentration in Sculpture and a minor in Art History from University of Memphis. He is a partner with Ugly Art Co and a member of Mid-South Sculpture Alliance.
STATEMENT
Productivity is the center of my life. This ingrained nature is systemic of the structures we are raised in. My work portrays my anxiety and concerns about living in contemporary working-class America, explored through kinetic sculpture, repetitive systems, and mechanical forms.
Growing up in a rural town in west Tennessee I became aware of class very quickly. Moving to Memphis and working late nights in warehouses to get through school ingrained metrics of labor and value into me, turning overworking into a measure of my success. My family, friends, and community’s continuous struggles with the cycles of debt and control imposed on them move me to analyze and challenge these exploitative conditions.
My work discusses alienation, performance, and exchanges of power as I evaluate my existence as a cog in the machine and a part of many systems. These explorations are informed by lived experiences and dystopian fiction, along with industrial and mechanical imagery from my urban environment. I use repetition, assemblage, and kinetic movement along with carved, cast, and sculpted materials to explore these notions and my relationships between the body, self, and work. I find that sculpture allows me to play with viewer interaction in new and exciting ways.