Benjamin Edwards
1970, Iowa City, USA. Lives and works in Washington

Both the American landscape and the American mind face the escalating challenge of congestion in the face of technological and economic
development. Space and time are at a premium. Technologies of mobility and accessibility, from the automobile to the television to the internet to the cell phone, while resulting in greater freedom and democracy, have also resulted in a mass, mono-cultural leveling which spreads with the goal of perfect uniformity. This affects the biodiversity of our natural
environment as well as the quality of our collective mind.
I am interested in the saturation point of this leveling process, when there are no new markets, no empty spaces to move into, when Manifest Destiny ricochets back through the continent in some endless feedback loop, and the whole thing begins to consume itself.
— Benjamin Edwards

Selected solo exhibitions: 2003: Artemis Greenberg Van Doren, New York; 2001: Artemis Greenberg Van Doren, New York.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: Post-Digital Painting, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, USA; Snapshot, Elizabeth Leach, Portland; Painting as Paradox, Artists Space, New York; Plotting, Carrie Secrist, Chicago; Panorama, Room, New York; The Norman Dubrow Biennal, Kagan Martos, New York; On Perspective, Faurschou, Copenhagen; Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea; 2001: Casino 2001, S.M.A.K., Gent; Next Wave Prints, Allston, USA.




Tabla Rasa: We are building, 2002. Acrylic and texture mediums on canvas, 183 x 274 cm.

The Pusan Experience, 2002. Acrylic and texture medium on canvas, 183 x 246 cm.
Courtesy Artemis Greenberg Van Doren, New York.