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September Reverses
“My studio practice is an integral part of my life and how I process things. As an artist, I think it’s important to give yourself the critical, experimental, and creative freedom to find out what you’re truly interested in – to be as honest in your work as possible. To practice a kind of self-awareness and understanding about where you are in your life, and to express that in whatever way you need to express it.
I am drawn to certain things over and over again: styles of lighting, placement of objects, composition, space. Having a studio for so long gives you an ongoing record of your internal visual dialogue, which I find more and more a very valuable thing.
Lately my paintings have been about the duality of impermanence and eternity. The delicious, luminal, liminal space between life and death. This recent work, with its almost ghostly subject matter, is about the spirits that we make and retain. Not in a negative way, but more in terms of sweet acceptance. They’re figurative paintings that let the figures frame and compose that very human experience.
I wanted to open up my imagery into something much more painterly and lived in. I’m painting with more consideration for the act of painting and what it needs to be. Deciding to let the body paint and working with the risks of markmaking, to convey the presence of witnessing, living with and experiencing the piece.”
Greg Bennett studied fine art at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University in Corner Brook majoring in painting and printmaking (1995–1999). In 1999 he travelled Harlow, England to study Victorian painting and architecture at the Memorial University Campus located there.
Work by Greg Bennett is found in the collections of the Provincial Art Bank, Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Canada Council Art Bank, the municipal art bank of the City of St. John’s and Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg, Toronto Canada.
Dec 6—Dec 31, 2024
Oct 24—Oct 31, 2024
Jul 25—Aug 31, 2024
Dec 1—Dec 31, 2023
Dec 9—Dec 31, 2022
Dec 11—Dec 31, 2021
Oct 25—Oct 27, 2019
Sep 6—Nov 2, 2019
Dec 2—Dec 23, 2016