Ben Grant
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Ben Grant
Ben Grant explores the potential for meaning through complex compositions of bold color and biomorphic shapes, each individually and uniquely painted. A profusion of pattern, reminiscent of everyday objects such as fabrics, custom cars, game boards and carnival rides, creates a perpetual visual experience.
Grant combines a multi-layered process of applying a variety of media such as paint, pencil and ink with a multitude of techniques including brushing, scraping, rolling, spraying, and drawing. Grant leaves his work "Untitled" as he does not want to impose any personal meaning on the work of art, instead he invites you to enter the painting on your own terms and make connections based on your life experiences, beliefs and outlook.
“My work is rooted in my conviction that painting’s expressive capacity continues to invite exploration, affording the artist a rich context both for the invention of new tropes and for the considered extension of formal and theoretical possibilities that may have been prematurely consigned to the dead letter office of Abstraction’s mid-century past."
New York native Ben Grant is an abstract painter based in Milwaukee. He received a BFA from The Cooper Union in New York City and an MFA at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
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Ben Grant, is an abstract painter based in Milwaukee. His work explores complex combinations of color, shape and texture. Grant received a BFA from the Cooper Union in New York City and an MFA at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He is currently a Lecturer of Art at the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh and Parkside.
"For a middle-of-winter rush of color, this show will feature seven abstract artists who use color with abandon and conceptual subtlety. The artists include Tom Berenz, Derrick Buisch, Ben Grant, Mark Ottens, Jeremy Popelka, Jason Rohlf and Richard Taylor."
Briefly describe the work you do.
My paintings explore the potential for meaning in simple, bold, and colorful combinations of shape and dimension. I look at my paintings as an evolving whole whose constituent components will continue to shift, drop out, or be added to as I explore the boundaries of my process. I paint the modular units that make up the pieces separately and then combine them in the studio to create strings of information that take on the form of a visual syntax. As I combine the elements of my pieces, I am building relationships that speak not only to the internal logic of the single piece, but also to the larger structure of the abstract language that is present in the whole body of work.
Painter Ben Grant led a gallery discussion regarding painted works on paper at the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University. The exhibition Hard Edge Abstraction: Painting and Works on Paper continues through February 22, 2014.
If January is any indication, expect 2014 to be an exciting year for the arts in Milwaukee. The Tory Folliard Gallery, for its part, is welcoming the new year with a cluster of new exhibitions.

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