PAINTINGS · CONSTRUCTIONS · OBJECTS
J. G. BENNETT
Systems, symbols, and constructed encounters that explore how we measure, interpret, and know.
EXPLORE THE WORKAn entrance to a larger world.
My work explores how we understand the world through a shared visual vocabulary of images, objects, symbols, and historical references. Through paintings, drawings, and constructed objects, I bring familiar ideas into unexpected relationships, revealing connections that may have been obscured or forgotten.
Each work invites an ongoing conversation through observation, contemplation, and discovery.
SELECTED WORKS
I.A selection of images, constructions, and objects. Choose any work to examine it more closely.
DETAIL / HIEROPHANT OF SCIENCEThe familiar
made strange.
Paintings and constructed works draw on the languages of art history, science, faith, and cultural memory. Objects act as instruments. Images behave as evidence. Meanings emerge, recede, and change with continued looking.
An invitation to discover—not a demand to decode.
READ ARTIST STATEMENTBEYOND THE IMAGE
III.Artifacts from a world
just beyond the frame.
Constructions, mechanisms, and spatial works belong to the same visual vocabulary as the paintings. Their hinges, weights, supports, and compartments are part of what they say.
J. G. Bennett
James Gordon Bennett is an American artist whose work explores the relationships among visual language, cultural memory, and human understanding. Working across drawing, painting, sculpture, and constructed objects, he creates artworks that invite sustained observation and discovery.
Bennett earned a B.F.A. in Drawing from Ball State University and an M.F.A. from the University of South Florida. His interdisciplinary background includes professional music, digital media, design, and more than two decades in higher education. His work draws upon historical imagery, scientific systems, religious iconography, and the visual conventions through which cultures interpret their world.
Bennett lives and works near Tampa, Florida.
SELECTED RECOGNITION · Solo exhibitions since 1988 · First Place, Abstracts (2023)
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