From the series Stones and Shrinking Violet Series
Single piece Signed Titled
Reference
b966267e
Year
2018
Medium
Sculpture
Size
17.14 x 17.14 x 10.8 cm
6.75 x 7 x 4.25 in
Artwork offered by
Category
Mixed media on hand cut reclaimed Lucite and appleply.
, United States
Michelle Benoit’s work often combines transparent and opaque materials. Cut, burnished, painted, stacked, mortared and coalesced. Time and again appeal, experimentation and intent are embedded, revealing process and structure as image. Color combinations are symbolic of the past. People, thought, events and the memory of place are all assigned a color and re-remembered through hue. The objects signify an idealized geologic core sample, where time and sequence are rearranged. Selected exhibitions include 60 Americans at The Makeshift Museum, Los Angeles CA, The Muriel Guepin Gallery NY,NY, Gebert Contemporary; Scottsdale, AZ, New Britain Museum of Art CT, The Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, The Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY and the Stephen McLaughlan Gallery; Melbourne, Australia. Benoit was the recipient of the Iowa Arts Fellowship at the University of Iowa, the Merit Fellowship in Painting from Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Berkshire Taconic’s A.R.T. Grant, as well as consecutive Special Talent Awards from Rhode Island College. Her work is in the collections of the The Swain School of Design/university of Massachusettes Dartmouth, Memorial Sloan Kettering’s permanent collection, the University of Iowa and numerous private collections. She received a BFA from Rhode Island College, MA and MFA from the University of Iowa . While studying in Iowa, Benoit was strongly influenced during an internship at the State Office of the Archeologist. Born in Bridgewater Massachusetts, she currently lives and works with her husband, an architect, and quite a few previously homeless dogs, cats and occasionally other wayward critters. Together they are restoring a historic 18th century farmhouse in West Warwick, Rhode Island.
Address
Milan, Via Aurelio Saffi 9, Milan
Since ten years, Morotti Contemporary Art focused on the investigation of the art fields by promoting an intense exhibition activity, in both of its venues: Milan and Varese. Morotti Arte Contemporanea keeps an eye at the visual arts landscape. In the 18th century villa of Varese and in the space of Via Aurelio Saffi in Milan, there are both personal and ...