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① Artwork:
Siren X
In this painting, a colossal bioorganic mass forms over a slick expanse, as twin suns burn in the sky behind it. Like all the artworks in the "Siren" series, this painting borrows from the logic of Hollywood set design while also referencing analog graphic design.
In this series of paintings, striking scenes of highly rendered earthscapes offer visions of a post-human future. The artist’s subjects appear to radiate, drip, sublimate, condense, or erode, unblemished and still in deafening silence.
Every interest or activity shapes Ben Sanders’ artistic practice and contributes to an ever-expanding aesthetic umbrella. His bodies of work include paintings of food, drinks, logos, found design imagery, bonsai, gardens, and post-human landscapes painted on terra cotta planting pots, enlarged metal bottle caps, gallery stationery, or traditional supports like canvas and wood panels.
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③ Artist:
Every interest or activity shapes Ben Sanders’ artistic practice and contributes to his ever-expanding aesthetic umbrella. Gardening, cooking, collecting, painting, parenting, bartending—any action executed with intention could become a performance or artwork to this artist, who spent much of his childhood in his dad’s Hollywood set-building workshop. Sanders' bodies of work include paintings of food, drinks, logos, found design imagery, bonsai, gardens, and post-human landscapes painted on terra cotta planting pots, enlarged metal bottle caps, gallery stationery, or traditional supports like canvas and wood panels.
Ben Sanders was born in 1989 in Arcadia, CA, and resides in Pasadena, CA. He received his BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA (2013).
He has mounted solo exhibitions at OCHI in Los Angeles, CA (2023); OCHI in Ketchum, ID (2021); and Ampersand Gallery in Portland, OR (2020).
Sanders has also been in recent group exhibitions like Expanded Field at OCHI in Los Angeles, CA (2021); Second Smile at The Hole in New York City, NY (2020); To Bough and To Bend at Bridge Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2020); and Holding Space at Big Pictures, Los Angeles, CA (2019).
His work has been featured in news outlets such as ARTnews, Galerie Magazine, LA Weekly, Artillery Magazine, KCRW, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, The Oregonian, Wrap Magazine, and Paper Magazine.