Reception: Teddy Benfield: Summer's Lease Hath Blah Blah Blah...: Neighborhood Wines | Boston 5-8 PM

22 November 2024 
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Teddy Benfield, Untitled (Oysters / Champagne, 2024 Signed on recto House paint, black gesso, acrylic paint, oil pastel, china marker, Roll-a-tex on canvas 12 x 10 in.
Teddy Benfield, Untitled (Oysters / Champagne, 2024 Signed on recto House paint, black gesso, acrylic paint, oil pastel, china marker, Roll-a-tex on canvas 12 x 10 in.

Location: Neighborhood Wines

619 Tremont St. Boston, MA

Time: 5 - 8 PM

Meet the artist and view Teddy Benfield's exciting collaboration with Neighborhood Wines in Boston's South End.

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“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date”-William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18 ( Shall I compare thee to a summers day)

Presented by Neighborhood Wines and Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, this body of work comprised of 6 paintings and 4 hand painted wine bottle labels is inspired by the summer months and our relationship with time and space. As this work is a comment on past times spent with loved ones, I look at the quote above and think of the fleeting days of summer, time simultaneously standing still while passing by all too quickly, thoughts that I would share this body of work before the temperature outside dropped down to the 40s… blah blah blah… As New Englanders, we can all relate to the feeling of warmer days and nights passing by too quickly. These recent paintings continue to examine modern still life and blur the lines between interior and exterior spaces. Using common images of New England as a vehicle, the subject matter of this body of work imply time passing and the absence of life- snap shots of summer days and nights passed by for us to reminisce upon.

 

Teddy Benfield is a Boston based artist from Connecticut (b. 1992). “I work primarily as a painter and ceramicist focusing on the genre of still life. My work creates a dialogue between traditional still life genre painting and the relationships individuals have with marketplace and consumerism through ironies and the internet culture of today. Signage, branding and shared imagery combines the modern product with interior space yet has the ability to transform the modern pedestrian back in time and question the space itself. Representational imagery introduces the past to the present and pays homages to a combination of everyday life and mark makings as well as the comments of class and value in traditional still life painting while room for abstraction is absorbed within traditional advertisement and still life qualities.More recently, my work looks at the perception of interior and exterior space and the human relationship with these spaces especially during the time of social distance. While continuing to look at traditional still life imagery, I look to introduce aspects that skew the reading of an individual’s relationship to personal space.