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Demonstrating Protest, 2011
Guy Ben-Ari, Demonstrating Protest, 2011
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Guy Ben-AriDemonstrating Protest, 2011
Acrylic and ink on paper (framed)
16 x 20 in.
$1,200 (plus tax + shipping)
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This work was included in the Artis Shuk at NADA NYC, May 4-7, 2012
Demonstrating Protest was created in response to vast public protest around the world, including the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the social justice demonstrations in Tel Aviv. The multiplication of the raised fist suggests a painterly gesture that repeats itself through other imaginary bodies in the painting, alluding to the viral distribution of revolutionary messages through social media. Existing on the border of folk illustration and the contemporary reduced painterly gesture, Ben-Ari’s work deals with systems of classification and the relationship of philosophy to art. His most recent works use painting as a tool for examining didactic strategies and how the creative process functions as an experiential learning process by illustrating concepts from psychoanalytic theory.
Guy Ben-Ari (b. 1984 in Tel Aviv) lives and works in New York. Ben-Ari received an M.F.A from Columbia University's School of the Arts (2011). He received a B.F.A with honors from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (2009). While at Bezalel, he was selected to study painting at the Slade School of Fine Arts, University College London. Ben-Ari's work has been recently exhibited in New York at Thierry Goldberg Gallery, 6-8 Months Project Space and the Neiman Gallery. Recent solo shows include Yes to Burning Eyes at Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia (Artis Grant Recipient) and The Time Element at Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv. He is the recipient of Bezalel’s Loren and Mitchell Presser Award for Excellence in Painting (2009).
Demonstrating Protest was created in response to vast public protest around the world, including the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the social justice demonstrations in Tel Aviv. The multiplication of the raised fist suggests a painterly gesture that repeats itself through other imaginary bodies in the painting, alluding to the viral distribution of revolutionary messages through social media. Existing on the border of folk illustration and the contemporary reduced painterly gesture, Ben-Ari’s work deals with systems of classification and the relationship of philosophy to art. His most recent works use painting as a tool for examining didactic strategies and how the creative process functions as an experiential learning process by illustrating concepts from psychoanalytic theory.
Guy Ben-Ari (b. 1984 in Tel Aviv) lives and works in New York. Ben-Ari received an M.F.A from Columbia University's School of the Arts (2011). He received a B.F.A with honors from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (2009). While at Bezalel, he was selected to study painting at the Slade School of Fine Arts, University College London. Ben-Ari's work has been recently exhibited in New York at Thierry Goldberg Gallery, 6-8 Months Project Space and the Neiman Gallery. Recent solo shows include Yes to Burning Eyes at Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia (Artis Grant Recipient) and The Time Element at Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv. He is the recipient of Bezalel’s Loren and Mitchell Presser Award for Excellence in Painting (2009).
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