Benjamin Echeverria

Los Angeles-based artist Benjamin Echeverria (b. 1980) presents three environmental interventions accompanied by a selection of new paintings in which the roles of the materials are bent, reversed and consolidated. Prior to being stretched, the paintings are taken apart and reassembled, a process the artist began investigating in a series of sculptures in 2008. Oil paint’s plasticity and resistance to containment are key, as each painting is a context in which the will of the material asserts itself. This is the artist’s second exhibition with Parapet Real Humans.

Benjamin Echeverria September 14 - October 12, 2017

Benjamin Echeverria was born in 1980 and lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include, Iterations: Contemporary Approaches to Drawing, The University of Richmond Museums (2017-18); 57W57 Arts, New York (2015) and New Postures organized by N/A Oakland, Bay Area Now 7, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2014). Echeverria was a recipient of the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship from the Yale School of Art and received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MA from the University of Southern California. In 2013 he founded Reserve Ames in Los Angeles.

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