It’s All About the Benjamins

Name: It’s All About the Benjamins
Start: 2025-09-09T14:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-09-09T16:00:00-07:00
Location: 200 W 1st St, Claremont, CA 91711-4731, United States

Schedule

Tue Sep 09 2025 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

200 W 1st St, Claremont, CA 91711-4731, United States | Claremont, CA

The Scripps Fine Arts Foundation will host a lecture about artist Karl Benjamin at the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art. David Pagel, Professor of Art Theory and History at Claremont Graduate University, will speak about the work of this legendary Claremont artist and visionary of the 1950s hard-edge abstraction painting movement.
The program will include a visit to the CLMA "Complications in Color" exhibition featuring paintings by Benjamin and others followed by a tea. Thanks to Geoff Hamill, Real Estate Broker, Sotheby’s Realty, for sponsoring this month’s speaker.
Pagel will address the relationship between structure and color, focusing on the fact that Karl worked in series. In each series, he set up a structure and worked within that format, creating a great variety of paintings, before moving onto the next structure. We will examine the way his paintings interact with themselves—internally, as it were—as well as how they interact with those around them—externally, as it were. Most importantly, how do they ask us to look at them, both internally and externally, intimately, and publicly.