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Artist: Knowledge Bennett
Exhibition Title: Orange Is The New Black
Exhibition Dates: November 3 – December 3, 2016
Gallery Link: http://www.josephgrossgallery.com/orange-is-the-new-black
Joseph Gross Gallery is pleased t o announce Orange Is the New
Black, a new body of work from LA-based artist, Knowledge Bennett. This exhibition will be Bennett’s first
solo exhibition in New York.
Consisting of large scale hand-pulled silkscreen and acrylic paintings on canvas, this latest series explores
the African diaspora, critiquing the treatment of the Black American Community by the American
government throughout history. Images of historical figures such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and J
Edgar Hoover, appear on “ prison jumpsuit orange” canvases, chronologically identifying and offering a
critique of unjust practices dating back as early as the 1930’s, through to present day.
Bennett describes the work as acting like “a magnifying glass, placed directly over the long term relationship
between the American Gov’t and the Black Community. A relationship where corruption, oppression, and
systematic disenfranchisement is all too familiar.”
Knowledge Bennett
Knowledge Bennett, (Asbury Park NJ Dec. 5,) is a self-taught visual artist currently based in Los Angeles,
California. Fueled by his own entrepreneurial record of success in various industries, Knowledge has trained
his artistic talent through work in commercial photography and fine art studio practices. Well versed in the
rich history of the 1960’s American Pop Art Movement, Knowledge’s work displays a purposeful familiarity
yet possesses a deeper and more meaningful conceptual understanding. Immersed in modes of mechanical
reproduction he creates artworks that play to a sociological understanding of political and ideological
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