ART EXHIBITIONS

Ben Godward presents Between Light and a Hard Place, an exhibition of new sculptures combining wedges of stratified polychrome resin with welded steel forms. The works address Pacific Design Center’s boldly colored red, green and blue sculptural shapes through their asymmetrical, intense painted fragments that balance gracefully upon steel. The work also references the modern landscape; the yellow of highway safety and the blue of sky reflecting glass curtain wall. Elements of light and space movement are present with the weight and permanence of minimalism. The perfection of both are muted as upon closer inspection the hand of the artist is present and imperfections rejoiced. Godward’s artworks ultimately highlight an interaction of forms that combine color and sculpture in which painterly chaos of resin drips, pours and splashes is tempered by sculptural unity. Ben Godward lives and works in Brooklyn NY. He received his M.F.A. in Sculpture from the State University of New York at Albany and won the 2007 Outstanding Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture. He has shown extensively in New York including such galleries as Transmitter, Marc Straus, Elijah Wheat Showroom, Slag, Famous Accountants and NorteMaar. Godward has also completed large outdoor public art projects at Franconia Sculpture Park, MN and Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY. His work has been featured in The L Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Sculpture magazine and on WNYC Radio.