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Signed, Sealed and Delivered

Posted in Art, art on paper, art school, current events, events, exhibits, figurative, Miscellaneous, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, openings, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 6, 2011 by Tom Bennett

Silvermine Art Center in New Canaan, CT is organizing a fundraising event it has hosted for 10 years now, Signed, Sealed and Delivered. It’s an art sale and auction designed for collectors and art lovers featuring over 500 small, 4″ x 6″ original works in all media for sale at $50 each, to benefit the Center’s programs and outreach.

I’m contributing these 3 tiny paintings, all oil over monotype on Rives BFK printmaking paper. I rarely, if ever, paint this small with oil and I find it to be a disciplined exercise in control and direct manipulation of materials and form. Hellzalotta of fun.

Tom

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SSD 1, oil on monotype on paper, 6″ x 4″

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SSD 2, oil on monotype on paper, 6″ x 4″

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SSD 3, oil on monotype on paper, 4″ x 6″

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I Bought A Painting

Posted in Art, exhibits, openings, Toni Tiller with tags , , , , , , on February 3, 2010 by Toni Tiller

I haven’t had a lot of time to make art lately because I’ve been busy turning my house upside down and gettig rid of HUGE amounts of stuff. You all have seen the pictures before so you know what I am up against. But on a more positive note I have a new sewing machine and a new painting from the MICA show I told you all about last week.

The show was pretty cool, there was a lot of work I hadn’t seen in my preview visit, and also one painting I had seen, but it was upside down. Meg hung it right side up and I decided I had to have it. Have a look.


Meg Rorison

I took few shots of other things I liked incluging this piece that reminded me of JD Hastings in it’s inventive use of masking tape, made by Jinhee Kang titled “The Five Compositions”.

Here’s a detail shot

I love Ryan Soper’s creepy medical inventions, here is “Aparatus #44-506″

Chaney Trotter and I had a nice conversation about our mutual love of dead things expressed here in her painting “Decadent Shelter”

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Work To Do

Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings, openings, Painting with tags , , , , , on December 8, 2009 by jdhastings

I was productive this weekend… just not so much with the creating finished art to post thing. I spent the last 2 nights helping to set up a show I’m in (At the Firehouse North Gallery at 1790 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA. It’s up now, the reception will be Saturday 12/19, and it’ll be up through the end of the month). It’s the first time I’ve helped with such an activity since college, and is more work than I remember, despite being a relatively small space. It didn’t help the first night when a random drunk guy who was desperate for attention wandered in for a couple hours to harrass us and people who stopped by. We would have asked him to leave sooner but we all thought he was somebody’s friend.

Anyways, we finished last night at 11, and I had all of 30 minutes to prep stuff to post today. Apologies all around.

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What I did get to play with this weekend was cutting sheets of overlapping masking tape with my pazzles machine to make stencils to use on paintings. I usually don’t post the first results of methods I’m still learning, but here we are. I’m reasonably happy so far, but there are definite kinks to work out going forward.

The above work is the canvas I painted the pattern on. Here is the spent masking tape affixed to a sheet of paper:

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3 more examples after the jump Read more »

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Jesus was a Generation Y.

Posted in Art, current events, events, exhibits, Miscellaneous, news, openings, Tom Bennett with tags , , , , , , , on April 8, 2009 by Tom Bennett

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from New Museum.org:

The New Museum’s current show “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus” will be the first major international museum exhibition devoted exclusively to the generation born around 1980, tapping into the different perspectives, shared preoccupations, and experiences of a constituency that is shaping the contemporary art discourse and prescribing the future of global culture. In the United States, this demographic group is the largest generation to emerge since the Baby Boomers, while in India half the population is less than twenty-five years old; the sheer size of this generation ensures its worldwide influence. By bringing together a wide variety of artists and contextualizing their different approaches, “Younger Than Jesus” will capture the signals of an imminent change, identify stylistic trends that are emerging among a diverse group of creators, and provide the general public with a first in-depth look at how the next generation conceives of our world. Revealing new languages and attitudes, the exhibition will comprise a portrait of the agents of change at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

It opens today in manhattan.

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Monotypes in Massachussetts

Posted in Art, art on paper, current events, events, exhibits, Miscellaneous, monotype, museum, openings, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , on March 31, 2009 by Tom Bennett

This Saturday, April 4th is the opening for a group show of monotypes curated by the
Monotype Guild Of New England , an organization dedicated to the unique print, of which I have been a member for a few years. The guild boasts some very dedicated and talented printmakers. The show, Endless Possibilities , is at Lynn Arts, in Lynn, Massachussetts, and is one of several events being held throughout the Boston area in conjunction with the North American Print Biennial. So if anyone is in the neighborhood over the next month and likes free alcoholic grape drink and soft cheese-foods, check it out.

Tom Bennett

This is the monotype I have have represented in the exhibition:

boreas and orythia, after rubens

Borias and Orythia (after Rubens), 2008, monotype, 16 x 20

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Urban Art Awakening

Posted in openings with tags , , , , , on March 31, 2009 by Jason Gray

I was recently included in this event at the Soulard Art Market and Contemporary Art Gallery in St. Louis. I have no idea who else is showing, but it was juried by Kate Poss of Art St. Louis and Washington University, so I expect that it should be interesting. I won’t actually be in attendance for the opening, but I am thinking about sending my brother down there to stand in. If anyone makes it there, please let me know how it went.
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