Acrylic, wood, aqua resin, digital C-prints, casein, found photographs, archival inkjet prints, metal, paper, enamel, painted ceramic, plastic figurines, aluminum, rubber, ink, glitter, and staples, 40 panels
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Benning once stated, “The invention of photography was something that was literally a threat to painting as a medium, and it feels unnerving to me somehow to insert one into the other—like a bad idea, or like sitting the wrong people next to one another at dinner.” The panels that make up Shared Eye combine three-dimensional objects with both found analog photographs and digital images shot by Benning. Their use of images and objects reflects a diversity of viewpoints and tastes: the “shared eye” of the title that envisions the act of seeing as fundamentally collaborative
2019
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Sadie Benning
American, born 1973 11 works onlineSadie Benning’s career began at 15, when they received a Fisher-Price PXL 2000 toy video camera from their father for Christmas. Benning remembers, “I thought, ‘This is a piece of shit. It’s black-and-white.
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