Jason
Benjamin
"Everyone feels a longing. For hope, for love, from loss, from fear. These pictures are springboards of sorts from this longing acrosss unbridgeable gaps, across time and borders.
Shouldn't Art reach high? Shaping our pain and confusion into an untouchable pearl? Great Art endures through idealism not fatalism and irony. I'm not looking for an angle or an edge, I'm strivind for something pure, reductive, essential.
Following some others that have pointed a way: Sesshu, Chardin, Casper David Friedrich, Matisse, Brice Marden".
Jason Benjamin 2004
For
a moment it all made sense (il Cucco, Sicily), 2005
oil on canvas
180.0 x 240.0 cm
oil on canvas
180.0 x 240.0 cm
Because of you I see a light, 2005
oil on canvas
180.0 x 240.0 cm
Open arms, 2004
oil on canvas
180.0 x 240.0 cm
Hands
in the honey, 2004
oil on canvas
120.0 x 120.0 cm
oil on canvas
120.0 x 120.0 cm
I'm
going to try (New Paltz, NY), 2005
oil on canvas
80.0 x 110.0 cm
oil on canvas
80.0 x 110.0 cm
Kiss
the sorrow from your eyes, 2005
oil on canvas
120.0 x 120.0 cm
oil on canvas
120.0 x 120.0 cm
When
you can't go it alone (il Cucco, Sicily), 2005
oil on canvas
180.0 x 420.0 cm
oil on canvas
180.0 x 420.0 cm