myles@mylesbennett.com
ARTIST OVERVIEW
Myles Bennett is interested in the intersection of architectural drawings, 18th century landscape paintings, and the organized space of woven and raw canvas. For centuries, canvas has been stretched, primed, and conditioned for the creation of a multitude of genres of paintings, has been left bare, has been painted all white and all black, has been gridded with graphite, and has represented what we understand to be a picture plane. It is not that Bennett’s work subverts this, but enters into the conversation of what is a picture plane. His explorative process has led to figurative paintings, sculpture, photography, minimalist and maximalist drawings, and various forms of abstraction that combine these diverse mediums, all delving into what lies within and underneath this historic material. Whether the process lends itself to drawing lines guided by the canvas grain, inking into the cotton fibers, or the precise extraction of the canvas’s warp, leaving the weft behind, all tactics seek to fuse the artist’s curiosities and the surface’s condition into an aesthetic balancing act.
EDUCATION
Rhode Island School of Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Architecture, 2001 - 2006.
EXHIBITIONS
* Solo Exhibitions
2022
*Linescape 2, Haas Contemporary, Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY. 3/23-3/27
Art Market, with Pamela Walsh Gallery, San Fransisco,Ca 4/20-4/23
Emerging, Lafontsee Gallery, Grand Rapids,MI 5/21-6/25
A Tournament of Lies, Wassaic Art Project, Wassaic, NY/ 5/21-9/17
Art Rotterdam, with Rutger Brandt Gallery, Rotterdamn, NL. 5/19-5/22
*Hampton Fine Art Fair, with Haas Contemporary, Southampton, NY. 7/14-7/17
2021
*Linescaped, Haas Contemporary, Scope Art Fair, Maimim FL. 11/29-12/4
Liminal, Lafontsee Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI . 10/16-11/20
2020
*Sensible Landscapes, Galerie Tangerine, Nashville, TN. 1/16-9/11
2019
*Weight And Line, LaFontsee Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI. 4/26-5/24
2018
Elements, Bennett Galleries, Nashville, TN. 4/21-5/21 2017
A proposition of the Unknown, Espositivo Gallery, Madrid, ES. 11/8-12/23
2016
*The Captive, Victori-Mo Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. 10/21-11/25
Kips Bay Showhouse, curated by Benjamin Vandiver, NY, NY. 5/11-6/9.
2015
‘Art on Paper’ fair, pier 26 with Victori-Mo Contemporary NY, NY. 5/5-5/8
20"x16", curated by Geoffrey Young at Morgan Lehman, NY, NY. 3/26-5/2.
The Silo Room, curated by Courtney Johnson at Track One, Nashville, TN.6/6-6/7.
XXL Abstract, MAC Fine Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL. 8/29-9/30.
2014
Bushwick, Ground Floor Galleries, Brooklyn, NY. 5/22-6/29.
‘From the Land of Everywhere’, Victori Contemporary at Birnam Wood/Galleries, NY, NY. 7/30 - 8/29.
2013
Art Wynwood with Victori Contemporary, Miami, FL. 2/14-2/18.
Scope Basel with Victori Contemporary, Basel, Switzerland, 6/13 - 6/16.
*A Comment in the Margins, curated by Suzy Spence at Gallery 1, Brooklyn, NY. 9/20 - 12/21.
2012
* Solo Exhibition at MC Gallery, NY, NY. 12/13.
Cut Up: Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY. 7/6 - 8/5.
Altered Affect: Myles Bennettt and Timothy Gasbarro, curated by May Shetrit, Brooklyn, NY. 2/9 - 2/29.
New York launch of Red, White, and View: Wix Lounge, NY, NY. 3/22.
2011
Art Basel Open House: MAC Art Gallery, Miami, FL. 12/1 - 12/4.
Additional Matter: Lyons Wier Gallery Project, Chelsea, New York, NY. 8/17 - 9/5.
Room for Interpretation: Bennett Galleries, Nashville, TN. 6/10 - 7/10.
Nathan and Myles - In Time Out: Cheap Storage, Brooklyn, NY. 5/26 - 6/5.
Re:Materialize: Re:Creative, NY, NY. 4/28 - 5/25.
2010
Little Deaths: Ana Garces Kiley and Myles Bennett: Famous Accountants, Brooklyn, NY. 5/15 - 6/6.
The Business of Aura: Broadway Gallery, NY, NY. 7/19 - 8/10.
New Year, New Work, New Faces: Storefront, Brooklyn, NY. 12/28.
2009
Overlap: Elga Wimmer Gallery, Chelsea, NY. 8/27 - 9/19.
Will it happen: Elga Wimmer Gallery, Chelsea, NY. 8/3 - 8/15.
“Improvisations” Spread Art ’09 Group Show: Brooklyn, NY - 6/11.
* ”Myles Bennett: A 21st Century Luddite” Bennett Galleries: Nashville, TN. 4/24.
* ”New Work” Think Gallery: New York, NY. 1/15 - 2/10.
Belmont University: Nashville, TN - Group Show - 2/23.
Arkansas Community Arts Cooperative (ACAC): Little Rock, Ark - Group Show - 3/11. Texas A&M University: College Station, TX - Group Show - 3/12.
Book People: Austin, TX - Group Show/Book Signing - 3/15.
Art On 5th: Austin, TX - Group Show - 3/20
Dogwood Arts Festival - Knoxville, TN - juried exhibition - Best in Show - 4/3 - 4/25.
2008
Work Sold to ‘Bridgestone/Firestone Trust Fund Painting Collection, Tennessee State Museum.’
BETA Spaces: Inside / Out: Brooklyn, NY – 11/11.
* Unsubsantial Territories; Potion Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
RISD Biennial 2008, Juried: The Old American Can Factory, Brooklyn, NY. * Touch Structures. Bennett Galleries. Nashville, TN.
Rymer Gallery with band ‘Quote’ release party: July 12, Nashville, TN.
2007
Here and Now. Copy Gallery curated by Luren Jenisen. Philadelphia, PA. * Retrospective: April 2007 - May 2007. Potion. Brooklyn, NY.
Mango Group Show, curated by John Brown, Nashville, TN.
Artrageous, Bennett Galleries, Nashville, TN.
Art 45, Metro Spirit. Augusta, GA.
Korth Sunseri Hagey Architects Gallery, New York, NY.
2006
Small Show. Bennett Galleries, curated by Beth Hardcastle, Nashville, TN. Art 45, Arts in the Heart. Augusta, GA.
2004
Gallery Agniel. Opening display curated by Sara Agniel, Providence, RI.