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Noise / Performance - Benjamin Gardner
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Noise / performance with Alex Braidwood. And JJ. Butts. Live, partial recording from the Rurally Good Festival in Grinnell, Iowa, 2015: Horizon at Sun Valley.
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2013 - Benjamin Gardner
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History of the decipherment 1,. Acrylic, flashe, and ink on paper. History of the decipherment 3. Acrylic and tape on paper. Autumnal caudex 6,. Acrylic, flashe, ink, and cardboard on panel. False thinking and magic silence,. Weeds, sticks, trumpet vine, acrylic, collage, tape, wood. Installation at Box 13, July 2013, Houston, Texas. Your hands above the waves,. Acrylic, wood, tape on panel. Acrylic, flashe, collage, wood, and graphite on panel. History of the decipherment 2,. Diadem 3: wisdom and a word.
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home - Benjamin Gardner
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2015 - Benjamin Gardner
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Wood, plywood, acrylic, collage, paper, and latex. Head of a saint 2,. Acrylic, ink, urethane, and flashe on canvas. Head of a saint 14. Acrylic and ink on canvas, wood, collage, and acrylic. 20" x 16" and 22" x 10" x 8". Acrylic and ink on canvas. Animated collapse of time and space,. Acrylic and urethane on canvas. See that my grave is kept clean (for K.H.),. Acrylic and urethane on canvas. Acrylic and urethane on canvas. The Knots (1 and 2),. Acryilc, ink, plywood. Approx. 15" x 10" each. Nunc stans 6,.
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2012 - Benjamin Gardner
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The morning moon (with regrets). Acrylic and spraypaint on panel. The stars spell silence. Acrylic, plywood, popcycle sticks. Acrylic and spraypaint on panel. Black soil 13 (the sleeping buddha). Black soil #8 (manco capac). Acrylic, styrene, wood, leaf. Black soil 14, the morning moth, pandora sphinx. What hath thou brought. Styrene, roses, black eyed susans, queen anne's lace, sprayfoam, acrylic, leaves. Night song #3 (if there be a realm of reason). Acrylic and transfer on paper. 205" x 18.5".
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statement - Benjamin Gardner
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Ontology and culture constitute the pillars of my research. In a broad sense, I reflect on and investigate existence, time, memory, and human work and production. Questions about the cosmological existence of the human race, why we produce culture, and the state of after-existence are important ones to my reading and studio practice. My most recent works (collectively titled. Head of a Saint. Are informed by a scene from Chris Marker’s film. Head of the apostle.
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2014 - Benjamin Gardner
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One last midnight,. Acrylic and flashe on panel. Turned (for Pete),. Acrylic, collage, ink, graphite on paper. Nunc stans 1,. Acrylic and ink on paper. Wrenwood 68 (the let of dark),. Acrylic and ink on paper. Acrylic and ink on paper. Acrylic, flashe, gouache, ink on panel. 72" x 48" (tryptich). Acrylic and flashe on paper. Acrylic and ink on paper. Acrylic, collage, flashe, and ink on paper. Acrylic, ink, gouache, flashe on paper. Acrylic and ink on paper. Black soil #20 (the air between the limbs),.