CURRENT & UPCOMING EVENTS:
February 20 - May 14, 2012
2-UP is part of "Millennium Magazines"
The Museum of Modern Art Library
New York, NY
April 4, 2012
Lucky Draw Spring Benefit
SculptureCenter
Long Island City, NY
April 2012
2-UP Exhibition
Soloway
Brooklyn, NY
May 4-7, 2012
NADA NYC Art Fair
Represented by Callicoon Fine Arts
New York, NY
REVIEWS OF BENJAMIN KRESS, "SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, NOBODY" AT CALLICOON FINE ARTS (DECEMBER 9, 2011 - JANUARY 22, 2012)
"The modestly sized paintings in this promising debut portray shrouded figures in masks both literal and metaphorical. At first glance, "Linda on Bed" appears to depict the supermodel Linda Evangelista relaxing in the nude; in fact, it's a self-portrait of the artist wearing a supermodel mask. The effect is at once creepy and enthralling. In a series of canvases whose titles include the word "shadow," physical bodies seem to melt into ectoplasm. The spirit of surrealism pervades, notably in a silvery bust of a sleeping figure recumbent on a bed of glass beads."
-The New Yorker, January 16, 2012
"A Montana native and Yale M.F.A. recipient, Kress adds a certain creepy, dolorous quality to his various allegorical endeavors in paintings, sculpture, and photography, due perhaps to his use of masks as a frequent motif. They figure prominently in the show, which offers new sculptures and paintings..."
-Time Out New York, January 12, 2012
"The Brooklyn-based painter and sculptor's work with masks in intensely and creepily beautiful. In these new canvases and cast faces, he goes from life-sized yet eerily lifeless mixed-media heads to brilliantly luminescent oil paintings of himself wearing those masks, their complex layers of metals, plastics and glass creating all kinds of surreal, otherworldly reflections."
-The L Magazine, January 4, 2012
February 20 - May 14, 2012
2-UP is part of "Millennium Magazines"
The Museum of Modern Art Library
New York, NY
April 4, 2012
Lucky Draw Spring Benefit
SculptureCenter
Long Island City, NY
April 2012
2-UP Exhibition
Soloway
Brooklyn, NY
May 4-7, 2012
NADA NYC Art Fair
Represented by Callicoon Fine Arts
New York, NY
REVIEWS OF BENJAMIN KRESS, "SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, NOBODY" AT CALLICOON FINE ARTS (DECEMBER 9, 2011 - JANUARY 22, 2012)
"The modestly sized paintings in this promising debut portray shrouded figures in masks both literal and metaphorical. At first glance, "Linda on Bed" appears to depict the supermodel Linda Evangelista relaxing in the nude; in fact, it's a self-portrait of the artist wearing a supermodel mask. The effect is at once creepy and enthralling. In a series of canvases whose titles include the word "shadow," physical bodies seem to melt into ectoplasm. The spirit of surrealism pervades, notably in a silvery bust of a sleeping figure recumbent on a bed of glass beads."
-The New Yorker, January 16, 2012
"A Montana native and Yale M.F.A. recipient, Kress adds a certain creepy, dolorous quality to his various allegorical endeavors in paintings, sculpture, and photography, due perhaps to his use of masks as a frequent motif. They figure prominently in the show, which offers new sculptures and paintings..."
-Time Out New York, January 12, 2012
"The Brooklyn-based painter and sculptor's work with masks in intensely and creepily beautiful. In these new canvases and cast faces, he goes from life-sized yet eerily lifeless mixed-media heads to brilliantly luminescent oil paintings of himself wearing those masks, their complex layers of metals, plastics and glass creating all kinds of surreal, otherworldly reflections."
-The L Magazine, January 4, 2012
