MFA Painting and Drawing mentor, Erik Benson’s show Night Moves is currently on display at the Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts in Fond du Lac, WI. The paintings in Night Moves emerge from odd fragments and skewed glances of the urban landscape. They are rooted in the familiar even pedestrian imagery one often takes for granted, but they take on a more idiosyncratic presence in his hands. Each composition inhabits a peculiar crease between generic and specific, universal and personal.

Exhibit Dates: February 26 – April 11, 2015

More about the artist: Benson is particularly attracted to imagery that is ubiquitous within an urban architectonic setting, in which elements of plasticity and temporality are depicted in a suspended state of in-between ness. His intention is for these elements to incorporate a resonance of a special psycho-geography of place and placeless ness that conveys the infrastructure (physically, psychologically, and conceptually) of the urban landscape and it’s issues. An urban sampling of fragment and space, that attempts to express something new about the spaces we inhabit.

 

For more information about the Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts: http://thelmaarts.org/current-exhibitions/252-erik-benson

For more of Erik’s work: http://erikbensonstudio.com/