by Tom Bennett
Barely Resolved Inoffensive Nude, oil on canvas, 2016
Fatigue 4, oil on paper, 2016, 16″ x 22″
Fatigue, oil on paper, 2016, 12″ x 9″
Fatigue 2, oil on paper, 2016, 20″ x 16″
Fatigue 3, oil on paper, 2016, 16″ X 20′
In the Hold, oil on paper, 2012, 18″ x 9″
Muddy Company, oil on paper, 2012, 16″ x 20″
Quiet, oil on paper, oil on paper, 2015, 19.5″ x 27″
Mannered Nude, oil on paper, 2015, 9″ x 24″
Memory Loss, oil on paper, 18″ x 14″
Sleepwalk Redux 2, monotype, 12″ x 12″
Sleepwalk Redux 17, monotype, 12″ x 12″
Sleepwalk Redux 24, monotype, 12″ x 12″
Witch 18, monotype, 2016, 12″ x 12”
Witch 21, monotype, 2016, 12″ X 12″
These Things don’t Mean Anything, 2012, 18″ x 9″
Artist: Tom Bennett
Tom Bennett, born in Ridgefield, Connecticut, grew up in a household of artists and was influenced by his father, Harry Bennett, an award-winning painter and illustrator. His father’s version of Dante’s Divine Comedy was seminal in shaping Bennett’s early aesthetic. He grew up spending much of his time experimenting with a wide range of art mediums, but particularly, drawing.
He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting at the University of Connecticut in 1982 where he worked under the noted painter and photographer, Bill Parker. He also studied design and color under the award-winning Paul Zelanski.
Tom had his first one-man show at the Ridgefield Guild of Artist Gallery in 1983, and a few months later moved to New York City to further pursue his painting.
In 1985 Tom spent seven months traveling alone through Western and Eastern Europe— into Hungary, East Germany and Yugoslavia—and Africa, sketching while traveling and absorbing new stimuli. His visits to sites like Dauchau and occupied East Germany left him with renewed connection to an inchoate subconscious iconography.
Subsequently, travelling into northern African countries like Morocco & Algeria provided fresh, non-western- centric experiences that ultimately had a subtle, yet profound impact on his art making.
He returned to Spain and resided in Barcelona. Tom lived on the Spanish Mediterranean coast painting, where he exhibited locally in solo and group shows. Eventually he returned to New York and moved to Brooklyn, where he has resided ever since.
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awesome
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There is so much assurance and power in these works. I can almost feel him working on these. Part of the pleasure in studying each one is that i am forced to engage kinetically with what is in front of my eyes – I feel the direction and friction of the trowel, the fluidity of the brush, the dry drag of the crayon. An indication of the scale of these works would help in realizing just how much this painter has accomplished with these studies. G
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Powerful and evocative work. These are truly stunning paintings! Thanks for sharing them on Creative Thresholds.
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Glad you like them, Holly!!
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Wow, stunning, powerful body of work.
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Powerful work!
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Superb and inspiring artwork, thank you for this…
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