Who: Benjamin Hollingsworth (artist)
When: Tuesday December 4, 2012
Where: City Gallery at Water Front Park
34 Prioleau St., Unit A, Charleston, SC 29401
Price: FREE
http://citygalleryatwaterfrontpark.com/benjamin-hollingsworth-grace/
Benjamin Hollingsworth was born in Concord, North Carolina in 1982. He grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, where he earned his BA from CofC. He later moved to New York where he stubble upon some books in the library about art and art history. Where shortly after he decided to create art. In the Exhibit of the GRACE he had a bunch of abstract art. With in the art gallery some of the art consisted of a bunch of spray painted items. Some of the spray paint items were basketball shoes, wood boards with nails, items inside other paintings and etc. One strange piece of art was a mattress that was folded with a brick inside of it. Hollingsworth is mostly interested in how histories are built and how the new generations perceive of it.
http://www.benjaminhollingsworthart.com/blog/
Through out my experience in this art gallery I found that the spray painted basketball shoes were the most interesting items, because basketball is my life so I found it really cool to look at. Also while there I found many of the piece to be seen regularly in everyday life and found it to quite odd. Although some of these items were odd it made me curious on why he would want to spray paint these items and create this peculiar objects.
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