Juxtaposing industrial and natural media, celebrating a dichotomy of geometric and organic, order and chaos. The crystalline tendency of nature, that same energy which constructs the atom and controls the orbits of the stars. Inspiring meditation on this universality within the sublime paradox, tightrope walking the thin line between the comic and the cosmic.
Contact
BennSilva@gmail.com
Artist Bio
-2002-2006 -University of Massachusetts Amherst Fine Arts Program
-November 2004 - Exhibition 'Forging Order from a World of Chaos. ' Umass Amherst Student Union Gallery
-May 2005- Durfee Gardens Site Specific Sculpture Installation, Amherst, MA
-November 2005- Group Exhibition- 'The Time Has Come to Weigh Those Things" Umass Amherst Student Union Gallery
-April 2006- Thesis Exhibition, Umass Amherst Student Union Gallery
-May 2006- earn Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture, University of Massachusetts Amherst
-August 9 2006- Exhibition, Coonamessett Inn, Cape Cod, MA
-September 2006- December 2006- Bicycle Tour US/ Canada, Cape Cod to Los Angeles, funds raised to support 'The Coalition for Social Justice/ Coalition Against Poverty. Discover that life will be worth living
-Winter 2007- Volunteer Work Tzfat, Israel
-2007-2008- Represented by Kooharian Fine Arts, Cape Cod, MA
-Fall 2007- Study Foundry Process, Mass College of Art Boston
-Spring 2008- Bicycle Tour Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam; Study the Practice of Animism in Native Groups of South East Asia.
-June 2008- Discover Spirit Animal as Turtle
-2008-2009- Studies in Neo-Shamanism
-2008- present- Artist Assistant Rob Lorenson Sculpture, Metal Fabrication, Welding, Metallurgy. Somerset, Ma
-October 2008- present. represented by L'attitude gallery Newbury St. Boston, Ma
-June 2009- exhibit CO2 gallery. Woods Hole, Ma
-August 2009- exhibit Cherry and Webb gallery. Fall River, Ma
-October 2009- Sculpture install at Boston Convention Center
Sarasota Deco
Artist Rob Lorenson, Ben Silva Artist ASSistant- Stainless Steel, 16' Diameter, Sarasota FL