These abstract paintings are the result of over twenty-five years of exploration through painting. Although they contain references to nature, macro and micro systems, Eastern Philosophy, and to other art, they are primarily self-referential. Each painting’s structure is made from lines, often a single line that forms a circuit or isometric pattern. Within this line is a myriad of shapes, colors and gestures, which together primarily express feeling. A single line or circuit derives from the artist’s intuition of a universe that includes endless differences and yet is essentially one.
Lines are also metaphors of life: they have a beginning, a middle and end. They are records of their own creation--each line being made of many moments. The paintings describe the essence of form, they express the essence of feeling, which is energy.Born in Arizona, Fred Bendheim has lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY since 1983. As a teen-ager, he apprenticed with the surrealist painter, Phillip Curtis. Later, Mr. Bendheim studied art with Joseph Piasentin at Pomona College and with Roland Reese at The Claremont Graduate School. He has had numerous one-person shows and his works are in collections world-wide. His commissions include two fountain sculptures for Frank Lloyd Wright buildings and paintings for some of the finest hotels in the world. As well as painting, he has made: drawings, prints, collages, sculpture, illustrations for William Blake’s The Tygre, and has written numerous articles about art for the British journal The Lancet. Although his travels have taken him throughout the world, working in his studio has been his greatest adventure. He lives with the set designer, Sarah Edkins, and their daughter, Gemma.
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