MARK BENNETT
Home of Charlotte Hollis (Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte)
2003, ink on Vellum, 30 x 42 inches
MARK BENNETT
Home of Norman Bates (Psycho)
2004, pigment print, 20 x 30 inches, ed: 20.
MARK BENNETT
Home of Blanche and Jane Hudson (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane)
2004, pigment print, 20 x 30 inches, ed: 20
MARK BENNETT
Home of Mary Richards
1995, lithograph, 24 x 36 inches, ed. 20
MARK BENNETT
Home of Ralph & Alice Kramden (The Honeymooners)
1995, lithograph, 24 x 36 inches, ed: 20 + APs.
MARK BENNETT
Office of Perry Mason
1995, lithograph, 24 x 36 inches, ed: 20 + 2 APs.
CONNERSMITH Podcast
Discuss VII
Mark Bennett and Zoë Charlton
Connersmith, Washington, DC.
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Mark Bennett (b. 1956, Tennessee) creates whimsical works that engage with pop culture and celebrity to an extreme degree. His blueprint lithographs of Baby Boom era sitcoms and popular television series depict the ultimate pairing of flight of fancy and stoical logic; the purely imaginary floor plans grounded by the dry format of an architect's design. His works are both pleasingly nostalgic and vaguely disconcerting in their premonition of a society obsessed by television and celebrity culture.
Bennett has been included in many significant museum and group exhibitions, including those at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (DC), Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (CT), Walker Art Center (MN) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA). His work has been acquired for the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Corcoran Gallery of Art (DC), West Collection (PA), and the Portland Art Museum (OR), among others.