Sally Bennett
Return to Sender
Diptych, 46 x 25, reconstructed acrylic on canvas
Small Town II
60 x 23″. reconstructed acrylic on canvas
Small Town USA I
60 x 23″, reconstructed acrylic on canvas
One Liner
57 x 25″, recontructed acrylic on canvas
Dot Your I’s and Cross Your Eyes
Diptych, 68 x 40″, reconstructed acrylic on canvas
Loud Silence II
31 x 78″, reconstructed acrylic on canvas
To Be Continued
Pentaptych, 42 x 65″, reconstructed acrylic on canvas
Highlights
Diptych, 30 x 48″ reconstructed acrylic on canvas
End of the LIne
57 x 25″, reconstructed acrylic on canvas
About Sally
Sally Bennett is an abstract expressionist, currently working on a series of paintings titled “Reconstructions.” Each completed piece is actually comprised of two or more separate paintings. It is a complex and often challenging process, but the artist, with more than three decades of experience, admits she enjoys the problem solving aspect.
“Art is a language: an instrument of knowledge and an instrument of communication.”
Jean Dubuffet
My paintings are heavily rooted in daily experiences, past, present, fact and fiction. An obsessive fascination with patterns manifests the work. It offers a way to reconstruct and organize the chaos around me.
I accept a new relationship, a fresh beginning and an unexpected ending when the canvas is cut and reconstructed by my son. The work responds with a language of symbol, patterns, markings, color and cottage that promotes a slow viewing and an intimate engagement.
EDUCATION
Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Ohio Dominican, Capital University, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007 Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX
Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH
2006 Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
Sculpture Site Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Scope Pier show, Koelsch Galery, NY, NY
2005 Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
SOFA, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
1999 Walter Wickiser Gallery, NY, NY
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Santa Fe, NM
1998 Joyce Robins Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1997 Robins Hyder Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1996 Copeland Rutherford Galler, Santa Fe, NM
1995 Greer Garson Theater, College of Santa Fe, NM
1993 Agora Gallery, NY, NY
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2003 “Local Review,” Houston Chronicle
2001 “Secret Stories,” Hollis Walker, Catalog.
2000 “Sally S. Bennett,” National Review, Catherine
Anspon, ARTnews
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Numerous Private Collections
Represented By:
Koelsch Gallery, Hosuton, TX
Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH