Artist Talk: Erik Benjamins at Marta
About this Event
Marta invites you to a presentation by and conversation with Los Angeles-based artist and writer Erik Benjamins. A long-time collaborator with the gallery—from exhibiting artist, to exhibition photographer, to one of the newest entrants into Marta Editions' print program with his ongoing Butts of Florence series—Benjamins will discuss his multifaceted practice and relationship to the gallery and its programming. A Q&A with the artist, the gallery's directors, and the audience will follow. Libations will be served :)
6:30 — Doors
7:00 — Artist Talk
7:30 — Q&A w/ the Artist
Erik Benjamins (b. 1986) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Adopting materials and gestures across visual arts, design, performance, and writing, Erik’s practice explores themes surrounding sense of place, embodied knowledge, and poetic possibilities of text as it lives both on and off the page. He has realized projects with the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Contemporary Calgary, Blunk Space, the Neutra VDL Studio & Residences, the MAK Center Schindler House, Spring Workshop Hong Kong, the Jan Van Eyck Academie, and Foreland Catskill. He has participated in artist residencies at the EKWC (European Ceramic Work Center), the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, and the Institute for Art & Olfaction, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and Mildred’s Lane.
Marta is a Los Angeles-based, globally-engaged art gallery. Founded in 2019, the gallery makes space for artists to experiment with the utility of design, and for designers to explore the abandonment of function. Marta’s curatorial, publication, and podcast programs take interest in the process of a work’s creation as well the narrative of its creator(s). Marta embraces the intersection of and the transition between disciplines, advocates for diversity in design, and promotes broad access to the arts.
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