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Myles Bennett

Born 1983
Nashville, TN

Myles Bennett’s work is centered around the intersection of architectural drawings, 18th century landscape paintings, and the organized space of woven and raw canvas. His geometric abstractions explore the material capabilities of canvas in innovative ways, deconstructing and reimagining the picture plane.

Myles Bennett, Waves #6, 2023, Ink, Acrylic, Graphite and Colored Pencil on Canvas, 39 x 36 in

Myles Bennett, Waves #6 (detail), 2023, Ink, Acrylic, Graphite and Colored Pencil on Canvas, 39 x 36 in

Myles Bennett, The Attendant (Light, Union, Separation), 2023, Acrylic ink, graphite, and colored pencil on canvas, 72 in x 70 in x 3 in

Myles Bennett, Deconstructed Shadow (Prism), 2023, Acrylic ink, graphite, and colored pencil on canvas, 39 x 36 in

Bennett’s approach combines a variety of techniques, including intricate pencil drawings that are guided by the canvas grain, inking into the cotton fibers, and the precise extraction of a canvas’s warp in order to merge his curiosities and the surface’s condition into an aesthetic balancing act.

Transcendence, Installation view, JDJ, 2023

Myles Bennett, Penumbra #8, 2023, Graphite and Colored Pencil on Canvas, 50 x 50 in

Myles Bennett, Penumbra #8 (detail), 2023, Graphite and Colored Pencil on Canvas, 50 x 50 in

Transcendence, Installation view, JDJ, 2023

Myles Bennett


Myles Bennett CV

Education

Rhode Island School of Design

2006

B.F.A., Bachelor of Architecture

Solo Exhibitions

2024

JDJ, New York, NY (forthcoming)
Myles Bennett, Rutger Brandt, Amsterdam, Netherlands (forthcoming)

2023

Unraveling Prisms, Pamela Walsh Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

2020

Sensible Landscapes, Galerie Tangerine, Nashville, TN

2019

Weight and Line, LaFontsee Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI

2018

The Captive, Victori-Mo Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2013

A Comment in the Margins, curated by Suzy Spence, Gallery 1, Brooklyn, NY

2012

Myles Bennett, MC Gallery, New York, NY

2009

Myles Bennett: A 21st Century Luddite, Bennett Galleries, Nashville, TN
New Work, Think Gallery, New York, NY

2008

Unsubstantial Territories, Potion Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2007

Retrospective, Potion Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

Transcendence, JDJ, New York, NY

2022

Emerging, Lafontsee Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
A Tournament of Lies, Wassaic Art Project, Wassaic, NY
Conceal/Reveal, Lafontsee Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
3rd Anniversary Group Exhibition, Pamela Walsh Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

2021

Liminal, Lafontsee Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI

2018

Elements, Bennett Galleries, Nashville, TN
A proposition of the Unknown, Espositivo Gallery, Madrid, Spain

2016

Kips Bay Showhouse, curated by Benjamin Vandiver, New York, NY

2015

20"x16", curated by Geoffrey Young at Morgan Lehman, New York, NY
The Silo Room, curated by Courtney Johnson at Track One, Nashville, TN
XXL Abstract, MAC Fine Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL

2014

Bushwick, Ground Floor Galleries, Brooklyn, NY
From the Land of Everywhere, Victori Contemporary at Birnam Wood/Galleries, New York, NY

2012

Altered Affect: Myles Bennett and Timothy Gasbarro, curated by May Shetrit, Brooklyn, NY

2011

Additional Matter, Lyons Wier Gallery Project, New York, NY
Room for Interpretation, Bennett Galleries, Nashville, TN

2010

The Business of Aura, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
Little Deaths: Ana Garces Kiley and Myles Bennett, Famous Accountants, Brooklyn, NY

2009

Overlap, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
Will it happen, Elga Wimmer Gallery, Chelsea, NY
Group show, Belmont University, Nashville, TN
Group show, Arkansas Community Arts Cooperative (ACAC), Little Rock, AR
Group show, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

2008

RISD Biennial, Providence, RI
Touch Structures, Bennett Galleries. Nashville, TN

2007

Here and Now, Copy Gallery curated by Luren Jenisen, Philadelphia, PA
Mango Group Show, curated by John Brown, Nashville, TN
Artrageous, Bennett Galleries, Nashville, TN

Public Collections

Tennessee State Museum