BmoreArt interview with Christian Benefiel
What Weekly review by Amanda Fortner
Citypaper Review by Bret McCabe
Opening Reception: Friday, March 21, 7-10PM
Artists' Talk: Saturday, March 22, 1PM
Exhibition: March 21 - April 19, 2014
(Area 405's gallery hours will be on Fridays, 3:30-7:30pm and noon-4Pm on Saturdays & Sundays for the duration of this exhibit. )
As with an oblique angle where two lines coming from different directions share a common endpoint, InDirect Effect brings two artists together whose disparate points of departure ultimately intersect.
Working with sawdust, LA-based artist Jennifer Gilman will create a vast, site-specific drawing across the gallery floor. Whether linear and plan-like, or painterly with brushstrokes, Gilman's landscapes contemplate means and methods as well as the relationship between artist and work, and as a result, initiate a conversation with the particular space the artist and the work inhabit.
Meanwhile, local talent Christian Benefiel's graticular timber sculptures, which rely solely on tension, weight and friction for their composition, occupy space in elevation. Like a planet in orbit, a rocky island risen from the sea, or a bird's nest, his sculptures speak of craft, terrain, architecture and gravity.
Beyond the connection of wood products employed, both artists ponder space in geometric and human terms, where the artistic urge to manipulate a material and respond to a setting creates a metaphorical atmosphere.
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC