Bennet Schlesinger



Interested in art history, architecture, and poetics, Bennet Schlesinger creates abstract sculptures and paintings that explore “non-places”–the in-between, transient zones of life and thinking. For example, he has exhibited a book of 50 photographs of construction sites, places off limits to the public, alongside an aesthetically related site–a 27 foot long, 8 foot tall welded steel structure that divided the gallery floor. With intersecting frames jutting out at either end, the structural skeleton of a wall was effectively reduced to black lines that frame out negative space. Schlesinger has also based an exhibition on a poem he wrote about a man who, in the words of the artist, “physically comes apart: dimensional rules of space and time cease to have command over him, and only through his actions is he able to bring himself back into the world.”





His work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including at Violet’s Cafe in Brooklyn, Karma in Amagansett, and SIGNAL in Brooklyn.