John Bent

Primary Medium: Printmaking
Other media: Drawing, Paint


John Bent Visual Art Production Inc.

Email: bentillustration (at) gmail (dot) com

Website: http://www.johncharlesbent.com

Artist Statement
In my work, I deconstruct and reassemble the human figure. Working within the framework of traditional figurative painting (portraiture and allegorical narrative paintings), collage, and abstraction, I'm interested in exploring how we construct our identity, the way the surface is used to conceal the inside and how our "insides" can sneak up, bubble forth, and remind us of the dichotomies and contradictions we all dwell in.

Selected Works


Kaposi's Sacroma - 2009 - silkscreen on paper - 22.5 x 12 inches - $150.00

I Started a Joke - 2009 - silkscreen on paper - 22 x 15 inches - $150.00

Caving - 2009 - Gouache on paper - 20 x 16 inches - $300.00

Wick - 2009 - gouache on paper - 20 x 16 inches - $300.00

Yorick - 2009 - gouache on paper - 15 x 11 inches - $250.00


Artist Bio
M.F.A. 2006 Studio Art Rutgers University
B.F.A. 2003 Printmaking University of Connecticut


Grants and Awards:
2009 – Visual Arts Fellow, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism
2008- Artist in Residence, Artspace, New Haven, City Wide Open Studios
2006- Artist in Residence, Artspace New Haven, City Wide Open Studios
2004-2006 Teaching Assistantship, Rutgers University
2003 University of Connecticut Purchase Award
2003 Jury Commendation, Arches Student Print Exhibition
2002 Ellen and John Greene Travel Grant
2002 Fine Arts Talent Scholarship, University of Connecticut
2001 New England Scholar

Solo/Two Person Exhibitions:
2009

Sensual/Grotesque: John Bent and Tracy Walter Ferry, Albertus Magnus University,
New Haven, CT.
2008 Suspended Animation 1 & 2, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2004 New Prints and Paintings, Windham Art Center
Willimantic, CT

Group Exhibitions:
2009 Up & Coming: New Printmakers Make Their Mark, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
Sketchbook Project, Arthouse, Atlanta, GA
travels to:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington D.C.
Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA
Antena Gallery, Chicago, IL
Soulard Art Market, St. Louis, MO
3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
MODA, Atlanta, GA
Chicago Art Source Gallery, Chicago, IL.

2008 New Faculty Exhibition, Seton Gallery, University of New Haven, New Haven, CT
AIRS, Curated by Jeffrey Walkowiak and Todd Jokl, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Naestve Print Exhibition, Groennegades Kaserne Kulturcenter, Denmark.

2007
10th Annual City Wide Open Studios, Artspace, New Haven, CT.
Implode, Hello my name is Galery, New Haven, CT.
Invasive Exotics, presented by Artspace at The New Haven Lawn Club, New Haven, CT.
Flatfile: Recent Additions, Artspace, New Haven, CT.
Real pARTy, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT.
Will 100 Artists Please Draw a 1950 Model Ford From Memory, Art Gallery of Alberta,
Edmonson, Canada
2006
9th Annual City Wide Open Studios, Artspace,
New Haven, CT
Print Zero: Portfolio IV, travelling exhibition shown at:
Sev Shoon Gallery, Seattle, WA
Old Inlet Printmakers, Homer, AK
Basil Howard Gallery, Portland, OR
Rainbow Gallery at The University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

Fresh Meat, Shorline Institue of Contemporary Art
Long Branch, NJ
Disconnect the Dots, Dew Art Gallery
New London, CT
Big Block Portfolio Exchange Exhibition, Philagrafika Gallery
Philadelphia, PA
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Rutgers University Gallery
New Brunswick, NJ

2005 Works On Paper, Hogar Collection
Brooklyn, NY
Faculty Exhibition, Rutgers University Gallery
New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper: New Work, Rutgers Gallery
New Brunswick, NJ

 


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