Joseph bennett

Hometown:

San Diego

Statement:

                               artist’s statement I believe that this body of work began during childhood;standing in front of my father’s workbench and admiring all that lay before me—tangled wire and rust, heavy metal and bits of color,dusty cabinets hiding treasures beneath faded cobwebs. 

And even now, to find objects that were once used

down into my father’s basement.

Background:

 about the artist When I first saw images of Joseph Cornell’s work nearly eight years ago, I recall catching my breath and thinking that’s for me. The experience changed my life.  Since then, I have had the honor of exhibiting my assemblages in more than forty-five galleries and museums. My work is currently held in private collections in the US, Mexico and Europe. Recently, twenty-one of my works were exhibited at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, alongside of Cornell’s retrospective (curated by the Smithsonian Institute). Eternal thanks to my life partner, Eli Hans. My favorite objet trouve.

Showings:

    joseph bennett:  selected exhibitions    2007           Peabody Essex Museum, Exhibition+Residency: Cornell Retrospective, Salem, MA                  The Ubiquitous Bee Gallery, Seeing Red, San Diego, CA      Gallery 2CC, DADA, Surrealism & Found Objects, Los Angeles, CA                  The Athenaeum, 16^th Annual, La Jolla, CA                  Torpedo Factory. Roots and Branches, Alexandria, VA                   Cream, CityBeat’s Seen Local, San Diego, CA                  UHAA, Open Studios, San Diego, CA2006          Earl & Birdie Taylor Library, Two Sculptors, San Diego, CA                   Pleiades Gallery of Contemporary Art, National Show, New York, NY                  Woman Made Gallery, Size Matters, Chicago, IL The Gates Project, I Give Up, Phoenix, AZ Studio 3060, This & That; Homage to Rauschenberg, San Diego, CA Appleton Art Center, Found & Recycled, Appleton, WI Adorn, The Raw Show, San Diego, CA2005          Robert Miller Gallery, Postcards from the Edge, New York, NY                   Museum of the Living Artist, 48^th International Show, San Diego, CA                   RAC Gallery, National Exhibition, San Antonio, TX                   The Frame Maker, You Gotta Have Art, San Diego, CA2004           Gallery 24, International Assemblage Show, Berlin, Germany        Oceanside Museum of Art, Art Auction, Oceanside, CA                   Gotthelf Art Gallery, The Tzadakah Box, San Diego, CA                     Long Beach Art Gallery, Found Objects II, Long Beach, CA               2003            Masur Museum of Art, 30^th Annual Exhibition, Monroe, LA        Gallery LeLong, Postcards From The Edge, New York, NYThe Artisan, The Cigar Box Show, San Diego, CAThe Firehouse Museum, Artists Helping Artists, San Diego, CALong Beach Art Gallery, Found Objects, Long Beach, CAArt Institute of California, Garden of Earthly Delights, San Diego, CABrea Gallery, Made in California, Brea, CA2002            Sperone Westwater Gallery, Postcards from the Edge, New York, NYFlux Gallery, Glued, Screwed and Nailed, San Diego, CAThe Athenaeum, 11^th Annual, La Jolla, CAGallery 999, Invocations, San Diego, CAInstitute for Arts Education, Cultural Bridges, San Diego, CAWilliam D. Cannon Art Gallery, On Your Own Time, Carlsbad, CA

Arts College International, GLBT, San Diego, CA