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Carol Bennett
Digital, 2007
oil on wood
46 x 46 inches

Carol Bennett
Hang, (detail), 2007
ink, oil, graphite and enamel on wood
19 ½ x 12 inches


 



Flow: New Works by Carol Bennett
The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center
October 5, 2007 - January 8, 2008
 
Hawaii resident Carol Bennett's new body of work, Flow, depicts figures engaged in the process of swimming. For Bennett, swimming is similar to the process of painting and of viewing artwork. When the work is "flowing", the artist or viewer undergoes a suspension of self, when time seems to slow and the unexpected floats to the surface. The philosophy that guides her painting is based on her notion of “self”, and how it is affected by the place and time in which she lives. She is inspired by the various ever-changing, and interconnected details of her life and of how they affect the “big picture”. By revisiting these details, her artwork constantly reinvents itself.

Carol Bennett received a full scholarship to attend the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California, where she received her Bachelor of Arts with distinction and honors in 1978. Her works have been featured in many solo and group exhibitions in Hawai‘i and California. She has completed over 100 corporate commissions nationally and internationally, including Honolulu, Hawai‘i; Beverly Hills, California; Nairobi, Kenya; and Las Vegas, Nevada. She currently lives and works in Koloa, on the island of Kauai.

 

 

 


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