ERIK BENSON (AMERICAN, CONTEMPORARY)
UNTITLED
Auction: 2 October 2009 at 12:00 BST
£875
Description
Signed on verso, oil and collage on canvas over board
Dimensions
36cm x 36cm (14in x 14in)
Footnote
Provenance:
Private collection, London
Holster Projects, London
Notes:
Benson's paintings are pieced together fragments of urban landscape and culture that are found in the everyday. They sample elements and fragments of urban spaces in an attempt to express something new about the spaces that we inhabit.
This layering of space is replicated in the technique: to create the paintings he pours acrylic paint onto sheets of glass, once these have solidified and acquired an elasticity they are peeled off and collaged into larger compositions.