Charles Beneke works in a broad range of print media, installation, and painting. His work addresses the ever-evolving nature of identity as shaped through time, place, and lived experience.
New website folks! Check it out at the link in my bio. Thanks so much to @austin.trigg for the amazing photos, @pomeloproductions for the behind-the-scenes support & @woodhullmaine for the dream studio!
A little testing today to refine my value range and detail. Digital space > Inkjet transparency > Photolithography plate > Inked plate > Newsprint proof > Proof on good paper. An exercise in building an image you like, making it look flat and bad, and ending with the image I want. Always analyzing, problem solving, and working towards better!
A perfect day on new friends’ boat bobbing in Card Cove (thanks @asgatewood & @farmfreshmeth ) + moiré-like water morphing around us + an image that feels like me past and present + landing on the best printer settings after riding the struggle bus for a few days + great transparencies + an afternoon at @rwsartstudios + really nice plates (thank you print gods/goddesses) + a drive home on a sunny evening = happiness. A really good day! ☺️
I fold, package, secret away all that I breathe, shaping my becoming. I drift with joys and sorrows and they with me. We come and go on the tides of a sea of possibility, the space between us heaving and pitching until we collide and the messiness of growth blooms.