| 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. |