Frank Benson

Frank Benson exhibited his work at the Locker Plant on the first day of June, 2012.

Benson was born in Norfolk, Virginia and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.  His work is primarily sculpture and photography, made with an explorer’s interest in process, form, and mechanical technique and reproduction. In Marfa, Benson extruded and fired clay geometric tubes of various sizes and shapes, allowing the vagaries of the process to hold sway. He then combines these dark, elongated forms with found chunks of ancient petrified wood, now stone; in both cases the material is not what it first appears to be.

Benson has also taken a recent interest in clusters of “twinned iron pyrite,” refined-looking deposits that come from the ground in the shape of perfectly cubed and polished metal constructions, which he used to create larger, fabricated sculptures.

Frank Benson received his MFA in 2003 from the University of California Los Angeles, and his BFA in 1998 from the Maryland Institute and College of Art in Baltimore. Recent exhibitions include ArtPace, San Antonio, (Nov, 2011); Human Stature (Jessie), Taxter and Spengemann, NY and Overduin and Kite, LA (2011), and Frank Benson at Sadie Coles HQ, London, (2008, 2009). His work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Serpentine Gallery, London; the Miami Art Museum; and New York’s Sculpture Center.