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Studio Incamminati is proud to host the exhibition featuring the winners and finalists of The Bennett Prize. The exhibition is on view in the Betty Wold Johnson Gallery from Jan. 22nd to May 2nd, Monday through Friday, 9am – 5pm.
The opening reception will welcome the public and several featured artists on Thursday April 3rd, 6-9pm.
All are welcome!
Studio Incamminati, 1901 S 9th St., Bok Building 7th Floor, Phila., PA 19148 // directions and more information can be found on our Visit Page.
The Bennet Prize
The Bennett Prize, created in 2018, awards $50,000 to a woman artist to create her own solo exhibition of figurative realist paintings, which then travels the country. The Prize propels the careers of women painters who have not yet realized full professional recognition, empowering new artists and those who have painted for many years. The Prize expands opportunities for the public, who may not be familiar with figurative realist painting, to learn more about the creative vision of talented women painters in this increasingly popular genre. In 2018, the inaugural year of The Prize, there were 647 entries. In 2020 and 2022, the number of entries continues to grow.
Bennett Prize winner Shiqing Deng uses her paintings to explore the “relationships between virtual manipulated reality and the tangible world.” This exploration takes the form of strange and mysterious narratives populated by small figurative groups or single actors. Shiqing’s stories are drawn primarily from the personal, borrowed from the lives of her friends, from her own questions about society or contemporary events. Clothing becomes a starting point for both concealing and expressing the body, a second skin that provides visual clues to the invented stories. Planar and drawn elements within the clothing distort the three-dimensional illusion of the figure and elongated limbs further exaggerate the distortions of space. The drawn elements often serve as costume, a visual narration of the internal, sketched notes that allow the actors to communicate without speaking. Quiet, contemplative, mysterious and humorous, Shiqing’s paintings hide as much as they reveal. Shiqing resides in Brooklyn, NY.
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For more information visit The Bennett Prize official site: https://thebennettprize.org/
