Erik Benson: Urban Americana

August 28, 2015–October 4, 2015

Artist Reception: Friday, August 28, 5-7 pm

131164 Best Buy (Gratitude Series)
131164 Braintree (seer/thinker)
131164 Dixie
131164 Ghosts of Modernism
131164 Greek
131164 Icee
131164 Joy
131164 no title (Birch)
131164 no title (Knit Bomb)
131164 Smiley Thank you (Gratitude Series)
131164 Songbird
131164 Stumps (sneaky face)
131164 Target (Gratitude Series)
131164 Walmart (Gratitude series)

PRESS RELEASE – Erik Benson: Urban Americana

TAI Modern is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, Erik Benson: Urban Americana. Erik Benson’s new work investigates the physical and psychological infrastructure of the urban environment. Through his unique, collaged acrylic paintings and a new series of watercolors, the artist’s city scapes and urban still lifes create a visual language that communicates the intermingling […]

THE Magazine – Review: Erik Benson Urban Americana

If Cubism allowed us to break into pieces the complexities of the world and lay them out in two dimensions, we might view painter Erik Benson’s collaged acrylic paintings in similar terms. Instead of smashing things to pieces, Benson’s work begins as deconstructions,reconstructed. The artist’s paint-as-collage process grew from a simple misfortune—an allergy to oil […]