Tom Bennett Mixed Media
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett creates representational images of human figures and animals, emphasizing movement in a manner reminiscent of Lucien Freud, Edgar Degas and the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Elongated and blurry, the horse racing up a hill (Canter Fritz, 2002) and the sinister cat landing a leap (Chien Blanc, 1998) elicit a sense of foreboding enhanced by Bennett’s somber palette; his female figures too reflect a grim sense of humor with their distorted nude bodies. The face of Untitled Figure (1997), for example, is obscured by layers of dark paint. Classically trained as a painter, he initially worked in oil on canvas but discovered that monotype printing enabled him to “literally push the image around,” creating an essential element of motion. To overcome the limited scale of monotypes, however, he switched to painting on slick-surfaced plastic.
Tom Bennett’s practice is rooted in the classical tradition where painting and drawing from life is highly regarded. Bennett’s work is heavily influenced by Francis Bacon, Frank Auberbauch and foremost his father, Harry Bennett, who was also an artist. Tom’s time living abroad in Spain and traveling through Eastern Europe and Africa provided the artistic freedom to explore many of the techniques and subject matter that continue to define his practice. Bennett was born and raised in Connecticut.
His mediums include monotypes, oil on paper, canvas or styrene board. In a technique that Tom started over 4 years ago, several of his monotypes have been painted over with oil paint using a palette knife, brush, or his fingers to re-purpose the underlying image. These works are a testament to Bennett’s ability to quickly and concisely compose an image with expressive brush strokes, foreshortened figures and expertly rendered light.
Tom’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Bennett lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently represented by Tabla Rasa Gallery.
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Artist: Tom Bennett
In the Hold, oil on paper, painterly, abstract, nude
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on paper
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2010s Tom Bennett Mixed Media
Materials
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February Figure, female nude, greys earth tones
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil and oil stick over ink on paper. Neutral limited color, expressionist female nude with active brush strokes.
Category
2010s Expressionist Tom Bennett Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Ink, Oil
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Philadelphia College of Art - 1955-58, 1960-62, BFA in Painting
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Art Academy of Cincinnati –September 1968-August 2001 –Retired
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Advisory Committee- Weston Art Gallery
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Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education, Board of Trustees Member
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GRANTS and AWARDS
Ohio Arts Council Grant-Exhibition support-“Working Spaces” Munich, Germany -2001
Ohio Arts Council Grant-Exhibition support-“Tales of Slavery and Deliverance”, Munich, Germany-1999
Kulturreferat, Munich, Germany Grant-Residency, Villa Waldberta-Feldafing, Germany-1997
Cincinnati Arts Allocation Grant-To create installation-“The Cherubs of Theresienstadt”-1994
Ohio Arts Council Grant-To curate exhibition and travel “Cincinnati Artists Works on Paper” Kharkiv Art Museum, 1993
Cincinnati Bell Mural Commission-1990
Cincinnati Summerfair Fellowship-1988
Cincinnati Post-Corbett Award, Outstanding Individual Artist-1988
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