Project Description
Mark Bennett (b.1956)
b. 1956 Chattanooga, TN
Mark Bennett is one of the most engaging and original artists working today. His vision of art in the 21st Century and his constructed realities derived from television are as in tune to our pop culture now as Warhol and Lichtenstein were in the early 60’s when they were inspired by movies and comic books (the television of their day).
Emily Gest in the September 10, 1995, issue of Los Angeles Magazine perhaps sums up the work best when she noted: “Bennett, a 38-year-old art teacher cum draftsman cum Beverly Hills letter carrier, has been drawing floor plans of TV homes and offices since he was 10, sketching in front of the tube in his Tennessee home. He drew Rob and Laura’s house, then Ward and June’s, eventually moving on to the Jetsons, the Bunkers, the Stephens’s, the Ricardo’s (all three of their residences), Perry Mason, and the Cunningham’s.” “I wanted to be a part of those TV families,” says Bennett, who lives in what he describes as a 1956 “time warp” in Los Feliz.”
His research consists of watching as many episodes as possible; the actual drafting takes anywhere from a day to a week. It’s the details that Bennett loves: the precise location of Wednesday Addams’ play graves in the front yard; the hall Lucy uses to get to the Mertzes’ apartment, where Ward and June Cleaver kept their firewood behind the garage, and even where Sheriff Andy Taylor’s property line ended. He lists items that would never appear on a traditional floor plan, including phone numbers (Mary Richards’ is 555-2312), models of cars in the driveway or the seating arrangement around the dining room table…”
Since his first show, Mark Bennett has been included in over 3 dozen major museum and gallery group exhibitions, including a major show at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (titled “Mark Bennett: TV Sets and the Suburban Dream”; which travelled to Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH.; and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT)
EDUCATION
1982 New York University, Graduate Art Program, NY 1979 B.S. University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2005 | Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2005 | From LEAVE IT TO BEAVER to FRAISER: The Art of Mark Bennett Thayer Gallery, |
| University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, | |
| CA | |
| 2002 | As Seen on TV: the Stamp of Approval, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, |
| CA 2 | |
| 2001 | Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2000 | The Home Show, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
| 2000 | Leigh Conner Contemporary Art, Washington D.C. |
| 2000 | Mark Bennett, The Effects of Fords on Barbara, Kent Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1999 | Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX. |
| 1999 | OUTFEST Film Festival, Director’s Guild of America, Hollywood, CA. Mark |
| Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. | |
| 1999 | Artificial Life, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA |
| 1998 | Teleburbia, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR 1997 |
| 1997 | Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. |
| 1997 | Mark Bennett: TV Sets and The Suburban Dream, Corcoran Gallery of Art, |
| Washington D.C. Travelling to: Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, | |
| Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (1998), Progressive Corporation, | |
| Richard F. Brush Art Gallery. | |
| 1997 | Canton, New York. “Graphic Television: The Prints of Mark Bennett,” |
| 1977 | Mark Bennett: Fantasy TV Blueprints, Orange County Museum of Art, |
| Newport Beach, CA | |
| 1996 | Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA. |
| 1995 | Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. |
| 1995 | Cobalt Cantina Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1987 | UTC Art Gallery, University Of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN. 1986 |
| 1986 | Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. |
| 1996 | Happy Days: Mark Bennett and George Stoll, Contemporary Arts Center, |
| Cincinnati, OH | |
| 1996 | Location, Location, San Jose Institute Of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA |
| 1996 | Mark Bennett/Leslie Brack, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1996 | Clarity, Art Museum, Northern Illinois University, Chicago, IL |
| 1996 | City of Vapor: Capturing the Transitory Reality of Los Angeles Tatistcheff Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1996 | Nirvana: Capitalism And The Consumed Image, Center On Contemporary |
| Art, Seattle, WA Microsoft Artwalk 12: Print Exhibition, Microsoft Corporation, | |
| Redmond, WA | |
| 1995 | LACE Annual, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA |
| 1995 | Hostile Witness, Washington Project For The Arts (WPA), Washington, D.C. |
| 1985 | Hudson Highlands Museum, Cornwall-On-The-Hudson, NY 1984 Hudson 1985 |
| Small Works Juried Show, New York, NY 1982 Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, | |
| NY | |
| 1978 | University Art Gallery, Chattanooga, TN |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2013 | Landscape into Abstraction, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport |
| Beach, CA 2009 | |
| 2013 | I.D.: Individual Demographics, Greg Kucera Gallery, Inc., |
| Seattle, WA | |
| 2008 | Global Suburbia, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA |
| 2008 | NY/LA, GBK Gallery, Waterloo, Sydney, Australia |
| 2007 | Celebrity, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ |
| 2006 | Models and Prototypes, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO |
| 2006 | I Love the Burbs, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY |
| 2005 | Strange Architecture, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 2005 | The Lateral Slip, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, curated by Jan |
| Tumlir, Riverside, CA | |
| 2003 | Group Show, Jewish Museum |
| 2003 | Home and Garden, Savage Gallery, Portland, OR |
| 2002 | Trade Show, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA |
| 2002 | Family, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Endless |
| Summer, Kent Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2002 | Jewish Television, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY |
| 2001 | Shaping Stories, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA |
| 2001 | In Black & White, Forrest Scott Gallery, Milburn, NJ |
| 2001 | Architectural Drawing Collections, University Art Museum, University of |
| California, Santa Barbara. | |
| 2000 | Made in California, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los |
| Angeles, CA | |
| 2000 | Threshold: Invoking the Domestic in Contemporary Art,The |
| Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA. | |
| 2000 | Transposed Analogs of Built Space, Sculpture Center, New York, NY |
| 1999 | Threshold, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI |
| 1999 | Dream Architecture, Kent Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1999 | Drawing, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1999 | Double Vision, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA |
| 1999 | Re-Structure, Grinnell College Art Gallery, Grinnell, IA Architecture, Vaknin |
| Schwartz, Atlanta, GA | |
| 1999 | Built, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1998 | Claustrophobia: Disturbing the Domestic in Contemporary Art, Ikon Gallery, |
| Birmingham, England. | |
| 1998 | Inventory, White Columns, New York, NY |
| 1998 | Tune In, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX |
| 1998 | Home Sweet Home, Transamerica Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1998 | Works On Paper, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1998 | Affinities With Architecture, Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture, University of |
| 1998 | Tennessee/Knoxville. Traveling to: Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA. |
| 1998 | Babes, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1998 | Triennial, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
| 1998 | To Be Real, Center For The Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA |
| 1998 | Artshow 1: Recent Acquisitions for the Microsoft Art Collection Microsoft |
| Corporation, Redmond, WA. | |
| 1997 | Information, Air Touch Cellular, Bellevue, WA |
| 1997 | The Road Show, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1997 | Broken Home, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1997 | Drawings An Annual Bicoastal Invitational, Meyerson & Nowinski, l Seattle, |
| WA | |
| 1997 | Structures: Buildings in American Art, 1900-1997, John Berggruen Gallery, |
| San Francisco, CA | |
| 1996 | Happy Days: Mark Bennett and George Stoll, Contemporary Arts Center, |
| Cincinnati, OH | |
| 1996 | Location, Location, San Jose Institute Of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA |
| 1996 | Mark Bennett/Leslie Brack, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1996 | Clarity, Art Museum, Northern Illinois University, Chicago, IL |
| 1996 | City of Vapor: Capturing the Transitory Reality of Los Angeles Tatistcheff |
| Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |
| 1996 | Nirvana: Capitalism And The Consumed Image, Center On Contemporary |
| Art, Seattle, WA | |
| 1996 | Microsoft Artwalk 12: Print Exhibition, Microsoft Corporation, |
| Redmond, WA | |
| 1995 | LACE Annual, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA |
| 1995 | Hostile Witness, Washington Project For The Arts (WPA), Washington, D.C. |
| 1985 | Hudson Highlands Museum, Cornwall-On-The-Hudson, NY 1984 Hudson |
| Highlands Museum, Cornwall-On-The-Hudson, NY 1983 New York University, | |
| 1985 | Small Works Juried Show, New York, NY 1982 Hudson River Museum, |
| Yonkers, NY | |
| 1978 | University Art Gallery, Chattanooga, TN |
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2003 The Art of Luxury: Mark Bennett Presents 9 Hollywood Homes by John Elgin Woolf, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. Curated by Mark Bennett. Artist conversation with Robert Kooch Woolf during opening reception, January 14. Artist Lecture, February 19.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN New York Public Library, New York, NY
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Children’s Museum, Indianapolis, IN
Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Public List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Microsoft
Public Collections cont. Corporation, Redmond, WA West Collection, Oaks, PA
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| 1996 | Ed. “Art: Critic’s Picks,” Time Out, New York. December 5 – 12, 1996, issue 63. |
| 1996 | Updike, Robin. “Not Your Typical Opening: Art Walk Gives Employees Input In |
| 1996 | Building Microsoft’s Impressive Collection” The Seattle Times, April 1, 1996. |
| 1996 | Updike, Robin. “Nothing New In This Nirvana,” The Seattle Times, October 17, 1996.p. G-23. |
| 1995 | Crain, Mary Beth. “And I Shall Dwell in The House Of The TV Forever,” L. A. Weekly, December 8 – 14, 1995, p.63. |
| 1995 | Gest, Emily. “Palm Latitudes,” Los Angeles Times Magazine, September 1995. |
| 1995 | Greene, David A. “Hollywood Uber Alles: Three Artists Take On The Industry,” |
| 1995 | Los Angeles Reader, December 22, 1995, volume 18,Number 11, pp. 20 – 23. |
| 1995 | Kandel, Susan. “Reviews: Prime-Time Plans,” Los Angeles Times, December 14, 1995. F4. |
| 1995 | Morris, Ceridwen. “Hostile Witness”, exh. catalogue, Washington, D.C.: Washington Project For The Arts, 1995. |
| 1995 | Richard, Paul. “A Great Place To Snoop Around: At The W.P.A., The Walls Have Eyes,” The Washington Post, December 11, 1995, p. D1-9. |
| 1995 | Hertz, Betti-Sue, curator. Exh. catalogue, Transposed, New York: Sculpture Center. |
| 1995 | Ed. “Human Caviar: Bizarre artist’s Eggs-Traordinary show was born in her own ovaries!” National Examiner. |
| 1995 | Richter, Mathew. Exh. catalogue, Artificial Life, Seattle: Consolidated Works. |
PUBLICATIONS
| 2003 | The Art of Luxury: Mark Bennett Presents 9 Hollywood Homes. (2003). Santa Barbara: University of California, Santa Barbara. |
| 2000 | Bennett, Mark. How To Live A Sit-Com Life, New York: TV Books, 2000. 1997 |
| 1997 | Berke, Deborah And Steven Harris, Editors. Architecture Of The Everyday, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997 |
| Marcoci, Roxana and Diana Murphy and Eve Sinaiko, Editors. New Art, New York: Harry N. Abrams Publications, 1997. | |
| 1996 | Bennett, Mark. TV SETS: Fantasy Blueprints Of Classic TV Homes, New York: TV Books, 1996. |