Jacob Docksey
Jacob Docksey is a visual artist currently residing in St. Paul, Minnesota. Born in 1994 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Jacob attended the University of Wisconsin-Stout where he attained a B.F.A in Studio Art with a painting concentration. Initially dedicated to oil painting he also creates stop-motion animations with traditional mediums like charcoal and chalk pastel. He pulls inspiration from 20th century artists such as Ashcan School painter George Bellows, for his raw documentation of early industrial America, and Czechoslovakian filmmaker Jan Švankmajer for his surrealistic narratives. Jacob Docksey has shown around much of the US and has received an award in group exhibition at the Gamut Gallery C4W exhibition and annual Prometheus Exhibition at the Furlong Gallery, as well as partaken in the 2018 Survey of Wisconsin Artists at the Charles Allis Museum in Milwaukee.
