Artist

Sadie Benning

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SADIE BENNING
Untitled, 11x16 (AA)
2019
Aqua resin, wood panel and acrylic gouache
16 by 11 in. 40.6 by 27.9 cm.

SADIE BENNING
Untitled, 11x16 (BB)
2019
Aqua resin, wood panel and acrylic gouache
16 by 11 in. 40.6 by 27.9 cm.

SADIE BENNING
Untitled, 11x16 (EE)
2019
Aqua resin, wood panel and acrylic gouache
16 by 11 in. 40.6 by 27.9 cm.

SADIE BENNING
Untitled, 11x16 (GG)
2019
Aqua resin, wood panel and acrylic gouache
16 by 11 in. 40.6 by 27.9 cm.

SADIE BENNING
Untitled, 11x16 (HH)
2019
Aqua resin, wood panel and acrylic gouache
16 by 11 in. 40.6 by 27.9 cm.

SADIE BENNING
Untitled, 11x16 (II)
2019
Aqua resin, wood panel and acrylic gouache
16 by 11 in. 40.6 by 27.9 cm.

SADIE BENNING
Elvis
2017
Wood, aqua resin, digital image and found photograph
13 5/8 by 13 5/8 in. 34.6 by 34.6 cm.

SADIE BENNING
Snake
2017
Wood, aqua resin, casein, acrylic gouache and found photograph
34 1/4 by 23 in. 87 by 58.4 cm.

SADIE BENNING
Dinner Party
2017
Wood, aqua resin, digital image and found photograph
13 1/8 by 11 1/8 in. 33.3 by 28.3 cm.

SADIE BENNING
M3
2015
Medite, acrylic, aqua resin, enamel and casein
60 by 45 in. 152.4 by 114.3 cm.

SADIE BENNING
Wipe, Rust-oleum White, Montana Gold Blue Magic
2011
Medite 2, spray paint, dowels and plaster
14 1/2 by 18 1/2 in. 36.8 by 47 cm.

Biography

Sadie Benning has been known for their experimental videos, which they began making as a teenager on a Fischer-Price Pixelvision toy camera. At 19, Benning made a splash at the 1993 Whitney Biennial with a series of poignant yet knowing DIY videos. By 2007, when Benning had their first solo exhibition in New York, they had added small abstract paintings to their repertory.

Over the last three decades, Sadie Benning has made work that ranges from lo-fi, experimental videos exploring queer sexuality and identity to large, wall-mounted works that suggest a constant slippage between abstraction and representation, sound and image, sculpture and painting, motion and stillness, colour and its absence. The diversity of Sadie’s practice reflects the artist’s ongoing interest in ambiguity and in-between-ness.

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