Benjamin Edmiston "Slowly Born"
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Benjamin Edmiston's paintings, illustrations and silk-screens often depict the floating heads of folks that sort of resemble future cave-men. Rave party future cave-men. His psychedelic heads seem to have some fearful wisdom behind their blissed-out eyes. A little warped, a little wonky and pretty much awesome, the very 2D and almost unrefined seeming images are playful, colorful and joyous. In the artist’s own words, “My compositions feature unusual or fantastical settings inhabited by ominous characters depicted in a flat and decorative style. My bold, and often symmetrical, drawings offer a plane of floating heads, half-skinned snakes, and bodiless arms. Building a personal vocabulary with such imagery recalls for me the tension of an early, crude Mickey Mouse cartoon, or a misplaced folk sculpture standing eerily on a dusty shelf. The creation of a familiar but askew world — the sensation of the unheimlich is what fuels my work.”. Edmiston lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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from September 17, 2010 to October 08, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-09-17 from 19:00 to 22:00