Benjamin Edwards (artist)

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Benjamin Edwards
Born1970 (age 5253)
Education University of California, Los Angeles (BA)
San Francisco Art Institute
Rhode Island School of Design (MFA)
Spouse
(m. 1999)
Children2

Benjamin Edwards (born 1970) is an American visual artist known for his work with satellite maps, architectural blueprints, and computer models as source material. He is the husband of political consultant and government official Neera Tanden.

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Early life and education

Benjamin Edwards was born in Iowa City, Iowa. [1] He earned a bachelor's degree from University of California, Los Angeles and studied toward a master's in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute before earning a Master of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design. [2]

Career

Edwards is known for his paintings that employ appropriated imagery such as satellite maps, architectural blueprints or computer models as source material. [3] [4] [5] His 2004 painting Immersion, for example, used cartography to explore the impact of the highway system on the development of the American suburbs. [6] His 1998 work Starbucks: Seattle: Compression compressed all of the Starbucks stores in Seattle into one image. [5] [7] [8] In other works, he has created landscapes from images of fast-food restaurants, commercial signs, condominiums, shopping malls, convenience stores or corporate logos. [9] [10]

Collections

Personal life

Edwards is married to Neera Tanden, a lawyer and Democratic political advisor. [14] Tanden was the nominee-designee for Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Joe Biden presidential administration briefly before her nomination was withdrawn after opposition. [15]

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References

  1. Edwards, Benjamin; Gallery, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren (2001). Benjamin Edwards: Convergence : September 7-October 6, 2001. Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery. ISBN   9780967757384.
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  7. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. PAJ Publications. 1999.
  8. Rohatyn, Jeanne Greenberg; Belgium), Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (Ghent (2001). CA01. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst. ISBN   978-90-805595-5-4.
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  11. "CMOA Collection". collection.cmoa.org.
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  13. "Automatic City: Benjamin Edwards (American, B.1970)". omart.org. Orlando Museum of Art. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  14. Horowitz, Jason (3 November 2011). "Think-tank post puts spotlight on veteran Democratic operative Neera Tanden". Washington Post.
  15. Keith, Tamara. "Why Biden Budget Pick Neera Tanden Already Faces Republican Opposition". NPR.org.