96. BENJAMIN
DEGEN
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Drawing, Drinking, Sleeping, Dreaming, 2015. Oil on linen over panel, 182,88x274,32cm .
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Dancers, 2015. Oil on linen over panel, 182,88 x 121,92cm.
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"Park" Oil on linen over
panel. 2015
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BIO & STEPS
Born:
Born in Brooklyn, NY, 1976
Nowadays:
Lives and Works in New York City
Studies:
Cooper Union School of Art and Science BFA, 1998
Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship, 1997
Themes and
style:
Degen
finds inspiration in classical painting, nature and the figure. In a review of
his exhibition “Shadow, Ripple, Reflection” 2013, Will Heinrich of The New York
Observer describes the textural quality of Degen’s paint application.
Techniques:
His work
is developed in paintings, drawings and sculpture.
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
2013 “Shadow, Ripple and Reflection,” Susan
Inglett Gallery, NYC
2010 “Out of the dark, into the air,” Museum
52, NYC
2008 “We can’t stop living,” Guild &
Greyshkul, NYC
2007 “Brick Layer,” Mario Diacono, Boston, MA
“Medium,” St Barthelemy, French West
Indies
2006 “A Tree is Falling,” Kantor/Feuer Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
2004 “Land Lives and Still Scapes,” Guild
& Greyshkul, NYC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 “Stark Imagery:
The Male Nude in Art,”
The William Benton
Museum of Art,
University of
Connecticut, CT (upcoming)
2015 “Color Against
Color,” Curated by Eric
Hibit, Oretega y
Gasset Project, Brooklyn,
NY
“The Guston Effect,”
Steven Zevitas
Gallery, Boston, MA
“Night Flights,”
Curated by Norm Paris
and Jackie Hoving,
TSA New York,
Brooklyn, NY
2014 “Brooklyn Art
Party,” Nelson Macker Fine
Art, Port Chester, NY
“Diamonds and
Doughnuts,” Geoffrey
Young Gallery, Great
Barrington, MA
“art + crush: Xinyi
Cheng - Benjamin
Degen, Louis Fratino
– David Humphrey,”
Platform Gallery,
Baltimore, MD
“Disaster!,” Geoffrey
Young Gallery,
Great Barrington, MA
2013 “Amor Fati,”
Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
“Bathers,” Morgan
Lehman Gallery, NYC
“The Goddess,”
Geoffrey Young Gallery,
Great Barrington, MA
2012 “Gran Prix,”
Gresham’s Ghost/Nudashank
Gallery, Baltimore,
MD
“Painting as a
Radical Form,” Collezione
Maramotti, Reggio
Emilia, Italy
“Graphomania,”
Geoffrey Young Gallery,
Great Barrington, MA
“Night X,” Benjamin
Degen & Yuri Masnyj,
American Contemporary,
NYC
“Brucennial,” Bruce
High Quality
Foundation, NYC
2011 “From Where You
Just Arrived,” Curated
by Ryan Schneider,
Pepin Moore Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
“Drawing Crazy
Patterns on the Sheets,”
Geoffrey Young
Gallery, Great
Barrington, MA
“Thisorganized,”
Curated by Hope
Gangloff, Susan
Inglett Gallery, NYC
“LANY,” Curated by
Mario Diacono, Peter
Blum Gallery, NYC
2010 “Reclining
Nudes,” Geoffrey Young
Gallery, Great
Barrington, MA
“With Walls,” Museum
52 Gallery, NYC
“Natural Renditions,”
Marlborough
Gallery Chelsea, NYC
2009 “Kings County
Biennial,” Kidd Yellin
Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Body Language,”
Geoffrey Young
Gallery, Great
Barrington, MA
“Cave Painting,”
Curated by Bob Nickas,
Gresham’s Ghost
Gallery, NYC
“New Work New York,”
Fortune Cookie
Projects, Singapore
“Beyond Bounds –
Glow,” The Nerman
Museum, Overland
Park, KS
“Pink Panther,”
Curated by Amy SmithStewart,
Hannah Dumes and
Nicole
O’Rourke, Kumukumu
Gallery, NYC
“The Ankle Bones are
Higher on the
Inside,” Museum 52
Gallery, NYC
“Garish,” Geoffrey
Young Gallery, Great
Barrington, MA
“Variations on a
Theme,” Kavi Gupta
Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Transitions:
Painting at the (other) End
of Art,” Collezione
Maramotti, Reggio
Emilia, Italy
2008 “Bob Nickas
Collection, New York Recent
Acquisitions, Gifts
and Works from
Various Exhibitions
1985-2007,” White
Columns, NYC
“Three Landscapes (or
More) in the
Modern Style,”
Western Exhibitions
Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 “Painting as
Fact, Fact as Fiction,”
Curated By Bob
Nickas, DePury &
Luxembourg, Zurich,
Switzerland
2006 “Occupation,”
Geoffrey Young Gallery,
Great Barrington, MA
“View Eleven:
Upstate,” Curated by Amy
Smith-Stewart, Mary
Boone Gallery, NYC
“Collection
2005/2006,” Galerie
Rodolphe Janssen,
Brussels, Belgium
2005 “Among the Trees,”
The Visual Arts
Center of New Jersey,
Summit, NJ
“The Night Has a
Thousand Eyes,” with
Yuri Masnyj, Guild
& Greyshkul, NYC
“Looking at Words,”
Andrea Rosen
Gallery, NYC
“The General’s
Jamboree,” Guild &
Greyshkul, New York,
NY
“Bebe le Strange,”
D’Amelio Terras, NYC
“Ultimate Concern”
Geoffrey Young
Gallery, Great
Barrington, MA
“Greater New York,”
PS1 MOMA, Long
Island City, NY
“Landings,” Susan
Inglett Gallery, NYC
2004 “Colored
Pencil,” KS Art, NYC
Guild & Greyshkul
at Placemaker Gallery,
Miami, FL
“My Sources Say Yes,”
Guild & Greyshkul,
NYC
“The New Topography,”
Geoffrey Young
Gallery, Great
Barrington, MA
COLLECTIONS
Collezione Maramotti,
Reggio Emilia, Italy
The Hort Foundation,
New York
The Museum of Modern
Art, New York
The Nerman MoCA,
Kansas
The Judith Rothschild
Foundation, New York
Contemporary Drawings
Collection, New York
The Tang Museum at
Skidmore College, New York
UBS Art Collection,
New York
In his own words:
Representative
Galleries:
Susan Inglett
Srena Trizzino
For
more Information:
http://www.serenatrizzino.com/#!studio-visit-bd/c1k5s