The art I make is a collection of legends, images, ideas and myths. Look for: archetypes, fictions, truths and victims. The powerful and the poor.
Brad Benischek is a visual artist, educator and scenic painter. His work has appeared in numerous publications, on t-shirts, telephone poles and in galleries and art spaces across the south. He is a member of Press Street, a New Orleans-based non-profit which promotes art and literature in the community through events, publications and arts education, as well as the founder of Drawathon, Press Street's 24 hour drawing event. He received his BFA from Parsons School of Design and MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design.
What the modern era has gained in civility it has lost in poetic inspiration
n the exhibition What the modern era has gained in civility it has lost in poetic inspiration artist Joris Lindhout and curator Maaike Gouwenberg deconstruct the romantic and mythical image Hollywood has created of the Southern States, which are labeled ‘failed’ by neo-liberalism.
Starting from Southern Gothic literature a three month long road trip led them through the sun-suffused darkness of the chubby underbelly of America, which bulges over its bible belt. In their shiny raven Ford Explorer they examined the grounds described by writers like William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, James Dickey, Cormac McCarthy, and Harry Crews in terms of discrimination, fundamentalist Christianity, xenophobic hillbillies, cultural deserts, poverty to name but a few.
What the modern era has gained in civility it has lost in poetic inspiration shows the Southern States through the eyes of artists, musicians and documentary filmmakers from the South, or with years of fascination for the area. How does life look at the other side of the myth?
OPENING 3 september, 19.00 hrs
EXHIBITION From the 3rd of september till the 15th of october
1646
Boekhorstraat 125, Den Haag
1646.nl - info@1646.nl
P1.5 Everyday Hybrid
ISAAC DELGADO FINE ART GALLERY
615 City Park Ave, New Orleans LA
November 11 at 9:00am - Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 4:00pm
Strange Birds
Good Children Gallery
4037 St Claude Ave
Opening Saturday August 14, 6 - 9 p.m.
Exibition Dates: August 14 - September 12
Works on paper by Brad Benischek, The DNA Factory, Heather Vinz,
John Henry Kelly, Kim Jenkins, Louise Riley and Generic Art Solutions.
Featuring the video, Prehistoric Landscape, by Lucy Newman.
How Hare and Wild Birds Continue
A Visiting Artist exhibition at Lusher High School, New Orleans, La.
February 2010.
Hot Up Here
Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, La.
Drawstallation, March 2010.
Deep Pockets
Antenna, New Orleans, La.
March 2010
