Gershon Benjamin Exhibition
Spanierman Gallery
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Including landscapes, cityscapes, still lifes, figurative works, and portraits produced over the course of a seventy-year career, this exhibition of more than sixty works is the first large-scale presentation of the art of Gershon Benjamin. Drawing on his academic background and many European modernist influences, Benjamin distilled the exhaustive array of visual stimuli that he encountered into reductive, thoughtful images, using form and color to encapsulate his emotive responses to his subjects. The catalogue from his first solo show, held in 1934, aptly stated that his “theory embraces a precise expressionism” and commented that in his “nuanced studies you will encounter the evasive, evocative personality of the true searcher after the emotional ‘mot juste.’”
[Image: Gershon Benjamin "A Jersey City Pier" (ca. 1950-1960) Oil on canvas, 28 x 36 in]
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Schedule
from March 27, 2008 to May 03, 2008