Featured Artist Steve Bennett

Steve Bennett uses both traditional photography and digitally transformed images to create art that stirs the imagination. Enjoy his portfolio and visit his website to see more.

 

 

I started taking photographs fifty years ago in the age of film photography. Today, I take and make digital images of the world as seen (traditional photographs) and the world as I have reimagined it (photo-based collages).

 

 

My traditional photographs include poignant moments on the street, urban compositions that reveal the extraordinary within the mundane, macro and closeup images that reveal astonishing hidden realms in the world about us, and awe-inspiring landscapes that remind us of the grand scale of nature and our place within it.

 

 

My images of the world reimagined dissolve the boundaries between “what is” and “what if” between the actual and the possible. They create a tension between the predictable and unpredictable.

 

 

I use a combination of macro photography and digital transformation techniques such as blending and layering to create composite “microscapes” and abstracts that make small worlds large and large worlds small. The works are rendered on metal and canvas, and in multimedia formats.

 

 

My work intentionally challenges viewers—can they spot the differences between what is and what might be?

 

 

Can they lose themselves in the suspense and mystery of alternate realities?

 

 

Are they willing to suspend their own take on the world and reimagine the world as my artwork suggests it could be?

 

 

Can they set aside their disbelief long enough to view things in a new way, through my lens?

 

 

My work has been displayed in juried and member events sponsored by the Cambridge Art Association (Cambridge, MA), Gallery Twist (Lexington, MA), the Concord Center for Visual Arts (Concord, MA), and the Cambridge Arts Council (Cambridge, MA).

 

 

One piece was exhibited as part of Cambridge Art’s juried National Prize Show in May, 2019. Four of my canvas and metallic paper microscapes (each 48” x 48”) were on display for a year in Google’s lobby in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA. I have also had three solo exhibitions at local venues.

 

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