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Karl Benjamin at Brian Gross Fine Art

by Ava Jancar
Karl Benjamin at Brian Gross Fine Art at One Post Street June 30th, 2008 - September 5th, 2008
Posted 8/15/08

In an unusual, yet opportune setting, Brian Gross Fine Art houses a sort of tiny satellite location in the lobby of an office building at the busy corner of Post and Market. On the two walls which flank the building’s secured entry to a bank of elevators are currently displayed four paintings by Southern California artist Karl Benjamin. Possibly mistaken for generic commercial art by a casual passerby, these paintings are late examples by one of the innovators of the Hard-Edge style o... [more]

Discipline and Flourish

by Nico Machida
Karl Benjamin at Louis Stern Fine Arts September 29th, 2007 - December 22nd, 2007
Posted 11/4/07

Dance the Line at Louis Stern Fine Arts surveys the 50-year career of painter Karl Benjamin with maturity, equanimity, conviction. That considerable temporal span has allowed Benjamin’s painterly eye to achieve affective maturity, to reach a legible rhythm. The assuredness and consistency these canvases evidence are the show’s greatest strength. But underlying the discipline of Benjamin’s production is an equally pronounced interest in less cerebral effects—the optic, sensuous play of ti... [more]