Bennett Gewirtz

I was born in Brooklyn. I live in New Jersey. My career as a graphic designer has informed my work, I started painting a 12 years ago.

Color is important to me. I see it first. It makes me take notice. It can be visceral and powerful. If the colors are combined with a compositional, lighting or textural element, its power grows. This observation of ordinary objects can become remarkable in a painting by using scale, composition and color. I strive in my art, through elements of reality and abstraction, to make visible what most people take for granted in their visual reality. I wish to express something positive, artistically serious, and perhaps a little whimsical.

SUNY Plattsburgh BA Liberal Art
Pratt Institute Graduate Studies

Salon des Refuses, ART150 Gallery, 150 Bay Street Ste. 265, Jersey City, NJ

Studio Montclair/Monclair Art Museum, Inspired by Objects, Septembet 12, 20201

Joy, Proarts Jersey City, Virtual Exhibit, August 5, 2021

Ellarslie Open 37/38/Trenton City Museum June 26, 2021

Studio Montclair's Annual Open Juried Exhibition ViewPoints 2021, Montclair, NJ

Empowering’ 2021, ART150 Gallery, 150 Bay Street Ste. 265, Jersey City, NJ

2020-2021 The Pandemic Lens website (https://pandemiclens.com), 2 postings

Monmouth Museum NJ Emerging Artists Series, Solo Exhibition, (Virtual) May 8 through August 8. 2020, (Gallery) July8, through August 8, 2020, Lincroft, NJ

Curators Choice, ProArts 2019, Casa Columbo Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

Freedom of Abstraction 2019, Site: Brooklyn gallery

Salon Show 2017, Belmar Arts NJ;

Studio Montclair's 20th Annual Open Juried Exhibition ViewPoints 2016 at aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ;

Belmar Arts, NJ, 2016 Jersey Shore Juried Show;

2016 Juried Show, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ;