Ben Dallas

Overview

Ben Dallas paints on delicate wood constructions and assembled materials such as layered canvases. The mysterious design and the three-dimensionality of his works invite the viewer to spend time with the pieces, looking for marks, chromatic shifts, delicate lines, wax layers, and unexpected folds. Dallas' work can seem hermetic, but a closer look reveals exquisite and poetic compositions.

Dallas received an MA in Art History from the University of Illinois in 1971. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Fullbright-Hayes Fellowship. His work has been in exhibitions nationally including the Rockford Art Museum (Rockford, IL), Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (Santa Ana, CA), Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (Chicago, IL) and the San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum (San Francisco, CA).
Exhibitions
Works
- Behind The Scenes series Enjoying Arrogance From Limited Cognition
- Behind The Scenes series Maintaining Preferred Beliefs In What To Imagine
- Behind The Scenes series Softening Its Edges To Dull Its Slicing
- Behind The Scenes series The Absurdity Of Aiming To Be Yourself
- Behind The Scenes series Thoughtful Hunches About Blatant Vagueness
- Geometry Dreaming, Wanting To Be Something Else - The Circle
- Geometry Dreaming, Wanting To Be Something Else - The Ellipse
- Geometry Dreaming, Wanting To Be Something Else - The Parallelogram
- Geometry Dreaming, Wanting To Be Something Else - The Square
- Geometry Dreaming, Wanting To Be Something Else - The Triangle
- Holding On To That Last Deja Vu
- Hopefully Interpreted As Anything Better
- Resting In The Difference Between In And Out
- That Infinite Space Between Here And There
- Behind The Scenes series Blamed And Despised For Quitting Too Soon
- Behind The Scenes series Experience As A Suspicious Guess
- Behind The Scenes series Forced To Compete For Concealed Labels
- Behind The Scenes series Intentions Useful For Obscuring Reality
- Behind The Scenes series The Hard Imprint Of Cultural Design
- Behind The Scenes series The Physical Blight Of Faith Abodes
- Schematic For A Lively Arcadia
- Withholding Attention From The Here And Now
- A Puny Secret Held In Extreme Confidence
- At The Effect Of Systematic Lying
- In Advance Of A Broken Promise
- No Choice But To Consider The Fastest Bang
- Open-faced Sandwich 1
- Open-faced Sandwich 2
- Pretense to Culture While Shopping Online
- Schematic For The Big Glitch
- Something Like How The Other One Looked
- Too Much Like The Right Thing To Do
- Rub It
- The Wholesome Normality Of Corrupt Systems
- Yellow With Old Stuff
- Stout
- Appendage 15
- Faces (dark)
- Gradient
- Gradient
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