The painting features a vibrant, yellow background that contrasts sharply with two prominent, burgundy-colored shapes resembling elongated letter U's. The overall composition is striking and minimalist, with the curves of the shapes creating a sense of dynamic movement and fluidity against the flat, solid backdrop. The artist's use of bold, contrasting colors and simplified, abstract forms suggests a focus on exploring the interplay of shape, line, and negative space, characteristic of a modernist approach to visual art. This work likely reflects the artist's intention to challenge traditional representational painting and invite viewers to contemplate the inherent qualities of the medium itself. ...
born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1973. Benning currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Benning has spent the last thirty years investigating cultural influences, specifically in relation to identity, language and memory. Benning has been creating experimental videos since their youth in the late 1980s and has expanded their rigorous practice in a fusion of painting, sculpture, installation, and photography, formed with both found and original objects. Concurrent layers exist within their almost sculptural paintings as transparencies, analogue photos, digital prints, resin, enamel, and spray paint, coated on wall-based panels. ...
francesca kaufmann gallery opened in January 2000. Since then, the gallery has aimed to explore a diverse range of media, with a focus on video, site specific installation, and a special attention towards the works of female artists. After ten years in its historical location, the gallery opened in a new space in October 2010, under the name kaufmann repetto, to mark the partnership between Francesca Kaufmann and Chiara Repetto. In its new location, the gallery has been able to further develop its exhibition programming through a project space dedicated predominantly to younger artists, as well as a courtyard for large scale outdoor installations, which run parallel to the gallery’s main exhibition schedule. In 2013, the gallery inaugurated a new location in Chelsea, New York, with a parallel program to the gallery’s main space in Milan. In 2019 the New York location moved to Tribeca, expanding to a 3,000 sq ft exhibition space. The inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new space in Tribeca was a solo show by Lily van der Stokker. ...
