Painting and Sculpture

Ib Benoh

Ib Benoh (né Ibrahim Benoh) is an American multidisciplinary artist of Syrian-Libyan descent. Benoh's lifelong efforts to break the confines of geographical, cultural, and social boundaries, as he lived across four continents, seeking personal freedom and redefining identity, gave way to a wide range of works. He has worked in painting, sculpture, drawing, two- and three-dimensional construction, traditional and digital printmaking, digital media, poetry, critical writing, and scholarly research. Since his early artistic life, Benoh exhibited extensively. He had solo and group shows in the Middle East, North Africa, Italy, and the United States, including New York City where he was recognized by Betty Parsons in 1980. Though he left the art market in 1988, Benoh continued focusing on experimental work that led to his breakthrough approach to painting and digital media. Benoh's early exposure to the way of Infinity, the Sufi practice of oneness that transcends artificial divisions — along with reading extensively on the various philosophical thoughts of the ancient and contemporary scientific approach to understanding oneself and our world — fueled his work over the years. Ideas within the realm of infinity seeped into his work, such as interconnectedness, transformation, regeneration, continuity, variations, boundlessness, expansiveness, motion, timelessness, weightlessness, and nothingness. He creates harmony between the visual and the poetic as his artworks develop simultaneously with his poems.

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• ▸Giampietrino
• ▸Clive Deamer
• ▸Evening Party in the Studio on Strandvejen

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