BEN EDMISTON
Ben Edmiston is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY.
His compositions feature unusual or fantastical settings inhabited by ominous characters depicted in a flat and decorative style. His bold, and often symmetrical, drawings offer a plane of floating heads, half-skinned snakes, and bodiless arms. Building a personal vocabulary with such imagery recalls for him the tension of an early, crude Mickey Mouse cartoon, or a misplaced folk sculpture standing eerily on a dusty shelf. The creation of a familiar but askew world — the sensation of theunheimlich is what fuels his work.
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