| Ben Van Dyke |
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I'm 31. Born in Miami, grew up in northern U.S. now living in Upstate New York.
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| 关于此艺术家 |
I started out as a painter, found graphic design and managed to find a home in installation art in 2/3D mazes of typography and cryptic autobiography. |
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Univ of Michigan Lecture Series Poster
2006 45 x 24 |
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Lecture series poster created for the University of Michigan. I created a small sculpture of typography to be photographed and used as imagery to represent the University's lecturers. |
Typography Sculpture
2005 Vinyl, oil paint, felt, found objects 25x12 |
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Detail of typography installation using the letters S, R, P, M and the number 7 to create the word: BLAND from the shadows. |
When Red Looks Like Orange
2004 found objects, glue, oil paint, ink 5x5 |
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Created this small collage using found objects from the streets of Beijing...including Chinese currency, bus tickets and postage stamps. |
Lady in a Red Dress
2008 Vinyl, wood, glue, wire, acrylic, glue 25 x 30 x10 |
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Detail of typographic installation using a tiny plastic woman in a red dress. With the shadows from the wire (protruding from the wall) create the word: FLYING |
Identity
2008 Vinyl, plastic 150 x 80 |
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(Installation detail) Typography installation spelling out the phrase: "We repeat so we can be understood and the repetition becomes our identity". |
Engels
2005 found objects, glue on cardboard 8 x 8 |
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Typographic experiment with found objects... |
Fail and Repeat
2008 Vinyl, acrylic, found objects, glue 300 x 45cm |
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Typographic installation of found objects and dark materials to create a cryptic message about failure and perserverance. All of the materials used are letterforms. |
Anti-Knowledge
2008 Ceramic Letters 120 x 80cm |
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Using a box full of letters, I spelled out the phrase: ANTI KNOWLEDGE and piled up the letters in a pattern that would encrypt the message. |
Fool
2008 Vinyl, acrylic, found objects, glue 150 x 45cm |
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(Detail) Typographic installation communicating the difference being hopelessly lost and romantically in love with uncertainty. |
Benevolent Flux
2006 Digital Media 30 x 20cm |
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Cover design for my master's thesis and current book project titled: Benevolent Flux; living in harmony with chaos. |
Lecture Series Poster
2004 Digital Media and the use of a typewriter and photography 45 x 24 |
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Lecture series poster created for the University of Michigan. I created a small sculpture of typography to be photographed and used as imagery to represent the University's lecturers. |
Mail Art
2004 Postage stamps, glue, ink 10 x 12cm |
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Using materials found on American postage stamps, I created a block of wood with a proper address and postage paid...put it in the mail and never saw it again. (mailing address was on the back) |
Trashy Typography
2006 Found objects, tape, glue 90 x 60cm |
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Typographic poster made from trash and kitchen droppings. |
Beijing Spurs
2004 Found objects, glue 5 x 7cm |
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Small piece made from material found on the streets of Beijing. Exhibited at Tsinghua University. |
TUCH Sunday
2005 Digital Media 45 x 60cm |
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Poster promotion for DJ Kriel and friends, London. |
TUCH Sunday
2005 Digital Media 45 x 60cm |
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Poster promotion for DJ Kriel and friends, London. |
Mr. Beijing
2004 Postage stamps, found typography 7 x 5cm |
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Found this great stamp in a Beijing market and added a few extras... |
Vaseline Typography
2008 Vaseline, Vinyl 120 x 150cm |
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I used vaseline to create transparent letterforms that affected the view of the adjacent architecture...it also made the entire gallery smell like babies... |
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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
BFA, Kendall College of Art and Design.
MFA, University of Michigan.
Fulbright Scholar (the Netherlands), 2006
Artist in Residence, NLXL, The Hague, 2006
Artist in Residence, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
My BFA landed me in the advertising industry - which I naively thought I could change from the inside...but it just made me sour.
My sense of adventure landed me in grad school and allowed me the necessary time for developing an articulate voice of cultural nourishment. This need for conversation has allowed me to exhibit my strange Design work in many gallerys and museums from Big Rapids Michigan to Beijing China.
I exhibit my work frequently in Europe, Asia and the United States. |
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网站: www.benjaminvandyke.com |
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