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Biography
Benjamin Hunt was born in Boise, Idaho and is a 2019 Cornish College of the Arts BFA Graduate. He is an artist and painter whose stories use different allusion to things that were experienced in feeling and mood. His painted objects channel these images, feelings, and patterns told through color and self-expressed histories. He has recently shown in While Supplies Last in Seattle Washington.
Artist Statement
My work is an explanation, depiction, a dream, memory, and meditation. My paintings embody the passion I have for myself, and the compassion I have for others. I make art to mediate on a problem, by taking the accountability to resolve trauma through therapeutic creation. Healing is a resolution to pain and confusion. The symbolism of images in my memory resolves what I know, as well as what is unknown to me. My stories use different allusion to things that were experienced in feeling and mood. The objects act as vessels of possibilities and patterns as told through self-expressed histories. I use color to form a harmony depicted in different stages of emotion, while channeling these images and feelings as my resolution.
CV
2019
While Supplies Last Bellevue Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Forever Again, Specialist Gallery, Seattle WA
Double Fantasy, Cornish Collage of the arts BFA Graduate
2018
Mood Flowers, Studio e, Curated by Anthony White, Seattle WA
Cloud of Smoke, Studio Current, Seattle WA
While Supplies Last, Studio e, Curated by Anthony White, Seattle WA
Through Multiple Vessels, Cornish Collage of the Arts, L Space, Seattle WA
2017
Incidental Eraser, Cornish Collage of the Arts, Seattle WA
2015
Solo Exhibition, The Crux, Boise ID
2014
Student Showcase, Art Source Gallery, Boise ID
Awards
Cornish Collage of the Arts, Art Merit Scholarship, 2015
Artist of the Year, Timberline High School, 2014
Scholastic Arts and Writing, Silver Medal, 2014
Publications
Valley Visions, 2013/14/15
Programs
Summer at Cornish, Art Intensive, 2014, Seattle WA
2019
While Supplies Last Bellevue Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Forever Again, Specialist Gallery, Seattle WA
Double Fantasy, Cornish Collage of the arts BFA Graduate
2018
Mood Flowers, Studio e, Curated by Anthony White, Seattle WA
Cloud of Smoke, Studio Current, Seattle WA
While Supplies Last, Studio e, Curated by Anthony White, Seattle WA
Through Multiple Vessels, Cornish Collage of the Arts, L Space, Seattle WA
2017
Incidental Eraser, Cornish Collage of the Arts, Seattle WA
2015
Solo Exhibition, The Crux, Boise ID
2014
Student Showcase, Art Source Gallery, Boise ID
Awards
Cornish Collage of the Arts, Art Merit Scholarship, 2015
Artist of the Year, Timberline High School, 2014
Scholastic Arts and Writing, Silver Medal, 2014
Publications
Valley Visions, 2013/14/15
Programs
Summer at Cornish, Art Intensive, 2014, Seattle WA
Painting, textiles, and collage are the dialogues that make up my art as being or practiced. Painting for me has always been a spiritual, metaphysical and personal process, done only when alone for working though ideas. I am here to document my experience in the observance of my life by interpreting trains of consciousness and filling intricate foregrounds with subject matter.
Compositionally, my work is very intricate in sentiment and symbolism, often relying on the imagery, philosophies, and principles of Astrology, Tarot, and Shamanism to come to terms of what is happening in relative memory and present motion. My environment is also shaped by feminism, universal human rights, transculturation, the painful impact of colonialism on indigenous cultures, and the replacement of traditional beliefs. It is important what material I represent and use within an artwork because all aspects deliberately suggest a larger connotation or conversation that relates back to human knowledge of society.
My paintings start carving themselves out as I work with them, overlapping and experimenting with glopping over paints to complete disguising paintings. The experiences and emotions that I convey through my paintings and drawings involve repetition of lines and graphic structures canines, vases, flowers and fauna.
Fabric and textiles are a warm sculptural form that appeal to me, combining the different applications of material together. My “Soft Paintings” use form and color to signify feelings that represent the abstracted. Color and feeling symbolizes beauty, the eternal, and self-expression.
Dialogues in collage function with the expression of an unspoken collection. Collage overwhelms the possible connotations of preexisting material to reconstruct psychological perception. Collage is analogous to our altered perception and systems of knowledge and beliefs. As a “game” or adjustment of a “power play,” the result is a cut up aesthetic from a counterculture that deals with the normalization of trauma. These dialogues are relationships of composition and juxtaposition.
My works of art are reflections of times and moods inside of my evolving environments. They are healings, predictions, resolutions, meditations, and joy for myself.
Compositionally, my work is very intricate in sentiment and symbolism, often relying on the imagery, philosophies, and principles of Astrology, Tarot, and Shamanism to come to terms of what is happening in relative memory and present motion. My environment is also shaped by feminism, universal human rights, transculturation, the painful impact of colonialism on indigenous cultures, and the replacement of traditional beliefs. It is important what material I represent and use within an artwork because all aspects deliberately suggest a larger connotation or conversation that relates back to human knowledge of society.
My paintings start carving themselves out as I work with them, overlapping and experimenting with glopping over paints to complete disguising paintings. The experiences and emotions that I convey through my paintings and drawings involve repetition of lines and graphic structures canines, vases, flowers and fauna.
Fabric and textiles are a warm sculptural form that appeal to me, combining the different applications of material together. My “Soft Paintings” use form and color to signify feelings that represent the abstracted. Color and feeling symbolizes beauty, the eternal, and self-expression.
Dialogues in collage function with the expression of an unspoken collection. Collage overwhelms the possible connotations of preexisting material to reconstruct psychological perception. Collage is analogous to our altered perception and systems of knowledge and beliefs. As a “game” or adjustment of a “power play,” the result is a cut up aesthetic from a counterculture that deals with the normalization of trauma. These dialogues are relationships of composition and juxtaposition.
My works of art are reflections of times and moods inside of my evolving environments. They are healings, predictions, resolutions, meditations, and joy for myself.