Master of Fine Arts Degree, Drawing and Painting. The University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens.
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, Drawing and Painting. Barton College, Wilson, North Carolina.
My work is deeply embedded in historical and classical methods, materials, and processes while investigating a curiosity with the magic, mystery, and perversity of nature. I continually return to themes surrounding transitory events such as home, landscape, migration, love, loss, and how these themes relate to the natural compulsion to continue.
Recent paintings center around the idea of a dependent relationship between the objective and subjective (representation and non-representation) where there is an interplay between the observed and the ambiguous. There is an obsession for the painted object, the process, and the practice of painting.
In the studio where my head spins and my heart beats, I root around in memories and images from my own experience.
Ben Bridgers, 2019
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, Drawing and Painting. Barton College, Wilson, North Carolina.
My work is deeply embedded in historical and classical methods, materials, and processes while investigating a curiosity with the magic, mystery, and perversity of nature. I continually return to themes surrounding transitory events such as home, landscape, migration, love, loss, and how these themes relate to the natural compulsion to continue.
Recent paintings center around the idea of a dependent relationship between the objective and subjective (representation and non-representation) where there is an interplay between the observed and the ambiguous. There is an obsession for the painted object, the process, and the practice of painting.
In the studio where my head spins and my heart beats, I root around in memories and images from my own experience.
Ben Bridgers, 2019
