“The long speed coming,” 2023-2024. Sadie Benning. Wood, aqua resin, casein, and acrylic gouache 44" x 59" [HxW] (111.76 x 149.86 cm) Inventory #BEN945 Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles Photo credit: Greg Carideo

‘The Touch, the Amulet and the Saltation’ by Sadie Benning @ Vielmetter Los Angeles

May 3, 2024

Sadie Benning introduces a plasticity to paint with their choice colors and figures in their opening at Vielmetter Los Angeles. The, if I dare say, “taffiness”, of the experience of their art, provides a sumptuous mastication upon the mind’s eye in experiencing a novelty of beauty. And it is here with these abstract movements of paint which give a clarity amidst what would otherwise be possibly entangled if not for their minimalism with their emphases.

“Covenant,” 2023-2024. Sadie Benning.
Wood, aqua resin, casein, and acrylic gouache
44″ x 59″ [HxW] (111.76 x 149.86 cm)
Inventory #BEN942
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Greg Carideo

“After image,” 2023-2024. Sadie Benning.
Wood, aqua resin, casein, and acrylic gouache
44″ x 59″ [HxW] (111.76 x 149.86 cm)
Inventory #BEN943
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Greg Carideo

That, their geometry may have been extendible in a labyrinthine contouring meandering, as opposed to their wisdom in more punctuality which lathers our experience of each canvas as delectable. It is in the approachability of the works, towards encouraging more engrossment of the tactility, which is what makes these works beyond enjoyable. Thus, the haste in aiming to add as much as possible to a finite space of color has a happy medium of reduction which amplifies.

“Wag,” 2023-2024. Sadie Benning.
Wood, aqua resin, casein, and acrylic gouache
44″ x 59″ [HxW] (111.76 x 149.86 cm)
Inventory #BEN949
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Greg Carideo

“Without you I am nothing,” 2023-2024. Sadie Benning.
Wood, aqua resin, casein, and acrylic gouache
44″ x 59″ [HxW] (111.76 x 149.86 cm)
Inventory #BEN946
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Greg Carideo

It is to affirm that right-action with fine art is not necessarily complex. As the adage goes, simplicity is the mark of truth. Thus, thickness takes precedence over the inferiority of a mania of messiness in abstraction. For with this choice, we are left with more amazement, as opposed to more bewilderment.

“Triple touch,” 2023-2024. Sadie Benning.
Wood, aqua resin, casein, and acrylic gouache
26″ x 35″ [HxW] (66.04 x 88.9 cm)
Inventory #BEN952
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Greg Carideo

So the gentle capture of stunning is achieved with the affirmation of a minimalism in style. Modesty in the composition with their playfulness of tones brings out the delight which only the visual fine arts can provide. A respite, as it were, from the daze and confusion of what lies outside of each canvases dimensions.

“Cellular freeway,” 2023-2024. Sadie Benning.
Wood, aqua resin, casein, and acrylic gouache
26″ x 35″ [HxW] (66.04 x 88.9 cm)
Inventory #BEN951
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Greg Carideo

For more information, please contact the gallery:

VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

1700 S Santa Fe Ave #101
Los Angeles, CA 90021
info@vielmetter.com

+1 213 623 3280