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Kim Benson: Jubilant Space I-IV on view at TOA Presents Summer 2025
TOA Presents is pleased to feature Jubilant Space I-IV, a suite of new screenprints by Minneapolis-based artist Kim Benson, published by Entity Editions.
Kim Benson and Drew Peterson began collaborating on Jubilant Space I-IV in 2022, shortly after COVID-19 precautions eased. Their partnership developed organically, rooted in mutual admiration and the convenience of working as neighboring studio artists. With no set outcome in mind beyond the experience of collaboration, they embraced an experimental process that prioritized variety over edition size. Benson’s use of stencils and digitally printed films used in her paintings translated naturally into screen printing, sparking Peterson’s interest in techniques that could heighten the tactile qualities of the medium. Jubilant Space I-IV is a testament to the collaborative process between printer and artist, revealing a shared visual language that emerged through gesture, texture and intuition—an exchange marked not by precision, but by play, responsiveness and a willingness to embrace the unexpected.
Drew Peterson developed Entity Editions in 2018 as a fine art printmaking resource committed to the publication, production and education of print media through collaboration with emerging artists and educational workshops. Peterson has worked with numerous artists since launching Entity Editions, including Caroline Kent, Ruben Nusz, Frank Big Bear, Cameron Downey and Ta-Coumba Aiken, amongst others.
Kim Benson: Unearthed at Jessica Silverman Gallery
June 7-July 20, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, June 7, 5–7pm
Jessica Silverman is pleased to announce Kim Benson’s “Unearthed,” the Minneapolis-based artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and first solo presentation on the West Coast, from June 7 to July 20, 2024. The exhibition features 11 new oil paintings made over the past year that push Benson’s work to new scales. Mining the history of art through an excavation and reinterpretation of Renaissance paintings, Unearthed expands and abstracts the genres of landscape, still life, and portraiture.
Within the exhibition, representational figures and objects are transfigured into abstraction. Using lace, fabric, metallic paint, stencils, and tape, Benson meticulously layers rich, impasto surfaces such that imagery emerges and dissolves. Lace is both ground and subject, a veil and mode for reveal through which Benson materially and conceptually erodes the facade of history.
Pas De Deux
Group Exhibition featuring artists:
Kim Benson, Moyra Davey, Justine Di Fiore, David Goldes, Jay Heikes, Pao Houa Her, Alexa Horochowski, Ruben Nusz, JoAnn Verburg
June 26 – August 10, 2024