Arden Bendler Browning

at Ellen Miller Gallery, Boston, MA, with opening reception on March 6.

The landscape is forever changing, and forever changed. Artists continue to grapple with the natural world and its perpetual motion, both loss and rebirth. The Landscape : Lost and Found explores the lens through which 6 artists examine the presence of nature in today's world. Utilizing a wide variety of media, these artists present their relationship to the landscape with respect, concern and joy. Several of these artists observe with the aid of a camera, sketchbook or en plein air, but all of them embrace memory as an essential element in their practice. The underlying themes of loss and change resonates in all of these works, however equally powerful is the sense of wonder and rebirth.

Artists include Arden Bendler Browning, Christopher Schade, Cristi Rinklin, Meg Alexander, Amelia Hankin, Evelyn Ridz.

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This new site specific project will include multiple VR headsets, projections, lighting, and sound

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LINK HERE for gallery exhibition page, including a video tour of the exhibition, a recorded video, and in progress photos from the studio and sketching on location. YouTube videos included below as well.

Galleri Urbane is pleased to announce ‘Other Possible Worlds’, an upcoming exhibition by Arden Bendler Browning. This exhibition marks Browning’s fourth exhibition with the gallery. Bendler’s trademark circular form is present within this series, continuing the abstracted landscapes made from live sketches, photographs, and meditation. Other Possible Worlds explores the physical, and metaphysical, aspects of landscape - engaged in the enveloping, cyclical experience of her paintings.

Opening at Tinney Contemporary in Nashville, 8/17, with a reception on 9/7 and closing on 9/21.

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Tinney Contemporary is proud to present Black Forest, a solo exhibition of works by Arden Bendler Browning. The exhibition will be on display from August 17 to September 21, 2024. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 7 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. in conjunction with the First Saturday Art Crawl.

The impetus for Arden Bendler Browning’s most recent body of work came from a trip to Rülzheim, Germany and its surrounding landscape—a place which her Jewish ancestors were forced to flee in 1935 after Hitler’s rise to power. Borrowing Daniel Mason’s notion of “Witness Trees,” Bendler Browning hones in on the landscape-as-observer and, in turn, makes careful observation of the “witness”—transcribing the arboreal sentries of the Black Forest using collage, spray paint, and gouache. The dark expanses in these works mark a departure in Bendler Browning’s practice, both visually and conceptually, as the shadows lend these landscapes a novel degree of depth. Contrasting with the immediacy of the screens embedded in several of the works, a dislocated, shifting sense of perspective plays out across the surfaces of the panels.

In Black Forest, Bendler Browning undertakes a transposition that is twofold: a rendering of three-dimensional space in two dimensions, as well as a translation of past to present. Taken more broadly, the work delves into the archetypal weight of forests: mythological places that shelter wolves and witches as well as wanderers and refugees. Moreover, it is the specific history of the Black Forest, as well as the artist’s connection to it, which emerges as a key. In some sense, history is literally absorbed and recorded within the rings of trees, as climate conditions, rainfall, scars from fires—even bullets, in some instances—are preserved in the concentric circles of their trunks. Bendler Browning’s lens-shaped tondos mimic these circular bandings, as well as most nearly approximating a human field-of-vision; a lens, a portal. Each piece becomes a document of the artist reckoning with a haunted landscape. Though the events of the haunting are sealed off, this reckoning is preserved as gesture, as color and form.

Chicago artist David Linneweh interviewed me for his podcast called "Studio Break", episode 308. Listen at the link below!

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Please visit Galleri Urbane's online collection of affordable small works of art, including some of my yupo drawings mounted on panel, and some older framed roadtrip drawings.

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September 22-October 21, 2023 at The Middle Room Gallery

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Exhibition of new work at Galleri Urbane, June 24 through August 12.

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I created an interactive VR work as part of the mural and label, titled "Elastic Geography.Ext". To interact with this immersive experience, a QR code on the beer label connects to the web-based application. LINK HERE

Beer cans featuring "Elastic Geography" can be found at various locations through Yards Brewery's beer finder tool here:
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INTERVIEW WITH LAURA SALLADE LINK HERE

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Review of "Fields and Formations" in Artblog by Susan Isaacs:

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Tinney Contemporary is pleased to present Escape Routes, a solo exhibition with new paintings and virtual reality work by Arden Bendler Browning.

In her recent works, Bendler Browning leads the viewer through portals into an imagined reality of richly colored, dream-like landscapes. While her inspiration has historically drawn from wide-open expanses witnessed in transit to far off destinations, restrictions on travel throughout 2020 directly affected Bendler Browning’s artistic practice. The work created within this time has been informed by more familiar places, such as her urban backyard, local hiking trails, and what she calls “the infinitely detailed worlds within dense foliage and light.”

Arden Bendler Browning’s intensely-colored gestural paintings are positioned somewhere between chaos and order. They playfully waver between familiarity and the unknown. Some shapes are sharply defined, while others bend and blur.
These works abstractly portray a sense of place by referencing tangled botanic forms, pools of water, and blanketing beams of light. Bright and saturated strokes seduce, while deeper colors recede and pull the viewer further into her dimension of indulgent escape.

The VR piece for this show, also titled “Escape Routes” consist of 9 different scenes featuring paintings within the exhibition. Upon putting on the VR headset, viewers will find themselves within a scene centered around one or several paintings. Viewers will be transported into immersive abstract spaces referenced through the paintings, each serving as a portal into a different world which is both vibrant and not fully tangible. Viewers can walk through the environments and through the virtual paint strokes, even partially emerging themselves with the ability to view their own shadows as they move within the worlds.

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LINK TO Arden Bendler Browning feature in NEW AMERICAN PAINTINGS #104