Benjamin Senior
Orphic Swimmers, 2012. Egg tempera on cotton on board, 50 cm diameter.
The viewers of Benjamin Senior’s work can sense his enjoyment of control—over the choreographing of figures; medium of egg tempera; and over the system of colors and shapes that characterize his work. With surgical precision and wry humor, he probes ambiguous areas of our notion of healthy lifestyle and beauty. The paintings are nuances of everyday observations and periods of drawing from life. Senior pays particular attention to the appearance of light and the transparency of skin to create a perceptual intensification. The artist aims to color the viewer’s vision of the world by amplifying the numeric and geometric nature of daily life. benjaminsenior.com
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