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Metadata
Artist |
Benson, Carol |
Caption |
Four Wire Bowls |
Collection |
TMA |
Credit Line |
Purchase with Permanent Collection Acquisition Fund |
Culture |
American |
Date |
2010 |
Description |
2D abstract oil and encaustic painting. Benson is fascinated by the dichotomy between privacy and exposure, surface and depths, appearance and content. She creates an intuitive architecture in each peice, in the manner of one who puts together a personal environment or prepares a dish from exotic ingredients. Working on zinc-coated galvanized steel, which supports a vigorously interactive process and furnishes a refractive quality beneath the paint, she constructs and deconstructs the image through a series of changes. Her process mimics the first-time exploration of new surroundings, room by room, doubling back, turning corners, finallive arriving at an inevitable destination, a formal rightness, and a light and vibrant sense of familiarity. Benson also works with bowl imagery, either alone or combined with houses. Elegant ovals, reminiscent of reflections glancing obliquely off liquid in round containers, are positioned at unexpected angles to invite speculation about what might lie beneath their calm exterior, or how a bowl's contents might be dissociated from their context and be made to exist independently of the vessel that forms them. |
Dimensions |
H-24 L-24 inches |
Medium |
Oil/Encaustic |
Material |
Steel |
Catalog Number |
2012.07 |
Title |
Four Wire Bowls |