Erik Benson – 8 Modern Gallery

SANTA FE: April 15 – July 4, 2011 – Eight Modern Gallery on Canyon road features the work of Erik Benson.

Erik Benson was born in Detriot, MI in 1973. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001. Benson’s paintings of corporate office towers, strip-malls and graffiti-scarred highway barriers appear at once as delicately balanced, nearly abstract compositions of geometric color, and also as particularly beautiful condensations of highly poetic loneliness. He has previously exhibited at, among other venues, Galerie Schuster (Frankfurt), Finesilver Gallery, Houston & San Antonio, Rare Gallery, NYC, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica and Artpace, San Antonio.

 

 

SITE Santa Fe, SPREAD

SMALL GRANTS FOR BIG IDEAS, March 18, 2011

SPREAD seeks to provide micro-grants for innovative projects conceived by New Mexico-based artists. SPREAD is a community dinner that funds artists’ projects and creative initiatives.

Inspired by FEAST in Brooklyn and inCUBATE in Chicago, SPREAD is a recurring public dinner designed to generate community-driven financial support to fund artistic innovation.

For more information about SPREAD, check the following link.