BENJAMIN FERGUSONS’

by John Sunderland

Benjamin Fergusons’ exhibit at Life Café, Bushwick, throughout March 2010, as part of our ongoing showcase of emergent artists, presents an alternative zoology of amorphous biological and physical forms which appear to writhe and dance across the seven canvasses in the series.

The background appears to be not the buffs and beige of a wild-life populated Serengeti plane, but the grays and dulls of an urban landscape. Upon this stage his proto-life forms appear to dance, form, dissolve and form again in some form of convergent co-existence.

Fergusons’ urban stage is populated by devils and demons, angels, robots, birds and other wildlife alongside human forms which morph into a dreamscape reminiscent of Breugel the Elder and curiously, the flat world of Egyptian hieroglyphs. The artist takes us into a non-defined realm, which appears poisoned and tortured; but make up your own mind, in his visionary world you will see what you will see.

Altogether, this is a dynamic and original show; one to look deeply at and into. But beware, it’s altogether possible after a couple of drinks, that you may meet your own version of paradise or worse discover half-remembered nightmares lurking there.

*All works are for sale.

(See more of the artists’ work at www.wildlifespecial.net)