 BEN DALLAS Studio - Chicago, IL  EMAIL: ben@bendallas.comCURRENT STATEMENT: Significant art surprises and confounds us by escaping conventionalized appearances or identities devised to accomplish some specified purpose; this includes the conventions of art itself. As a result, its quality is directly dependent on its ability to evoke some degree of vagueness and incompleteness that forces us to feel and contemplate the unfamiliar. This experience usually reveals more than it reinforces. Because they do this, good art works are like visions even when they have no aspirations to revelation or prophecy. A vision’s look is unexpected and holds your attention for as long as it remains a vision. To stay alive it must be stronger and more demanding than the satisfaction and assurance felt from believing you understand it or from knowing what it is; this we determine later after the experience. Attributing its appearance to metaphor or symbol or finding the patterns within yourself that remind you of something like it will break the vision’s spell, so it works to deny our ability to do this while it’s in our presence. Without equals, it resists resolution and clarity, as it doesn’t seem to belong to the world as it is. Instead, it partially brings the past to a close and redirects what will be by adding itself to our experience. I work to make objects that function as visions. -Ben Dallas PAST STATEMENTS: 5 4 3 2 1 GALLERY REPRESENTATION: ELIZABETH LEACH GALLERY - 417 N.W. 9th Avenue PORTLAND, OR 97209 (503) 224-0521 siteLOVELY FINE ARTS - Deborah Lovely EMAIL: dlovely@att.netCUMBERLAND GALLERY - 4107 HILLSBORO CIRCLE, NASHVILLE, TENN 37215-2742 (615) 297-0296 siteANNE REED GALLERY - PO.BOX 597, 391 FIRST AVE., NORTH KETCHUM, ID 83340 (208) 726-3036 site
EDUCATION: B.A. History of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 1969 M.A. History of Art, University of Illinois, Chcmpaign, IL 1971 EMPLOYMENT: Professor of Art, William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, IL 1974 to 2001 Staff Lecturer, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1972 to 74 DISTINCTIONS: Artist Residency, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, Spring 2006 YADDO Residency, New York, Sept.- Nov. 2004 Hungarian Multicultural Center Residency, Hungary, July,2004 Artist Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council, 2002 Artist in Residence, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin, 2001 Artist Fellowship Finialist Award, Illinois Arts Council, 2001 Artist Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council, 1998 Artist Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council, 1995 ICIS (Illinois Consortium for International Studies) Faculty, Visiting Artist Christ Church College, Canterbury, UK 1995 ICIS Faculty, London, 1987 Fullbright-Hayes Fellowship, Belgium and The Netherlands, 1976 EXHIBITIONS ONE PERSON: BEN DALLAS - SERIAL WORKS, LIPA Gallery, Chicago, IL. Feb. 2006 reviewBEN DALLAS - RECENT WORKS, Harper College, Palatine, IL Sept. 2005 BEN DALLAS - GRADIENTS, Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA Jan. 2003 BEN DALLAS Mainsite Contemporary Art, Norman, OK 2001 BEN DALLAS Studio Exhibition, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin, 2001 BEN DALLAS -LOUD Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL Sept. 2000 BEN DALLAS -DIMENSIONAL WORKS Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Mar.2000 BEN DALLAS Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL Nov. 1999 BEN DALLAS- WALL WORKS Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Nov. 1998 BEN DALLAS- RECENT WORKS Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL July-Sept 1998 image reviewBEN DALLAS Wood Street Gallery , Chicago, IL Sept. 1998 BEN DALLAS Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN Feb. 1998 BEN DALLAS Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA June 1996 BEN DALLAS Christ Church College, Canterbury, UK Dec. 1995 BEN DALLAS Harper College, Palatine, IL Mar. 1991 COLLABORATIVE: DAA DOUBLE VISION Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Or. Sept. 2003 DAA RECENT WORKS- LIPA Gallery, Chicago, IL Sept. 2004 2/3 PERSON: T HERE - BEN DALLAS + JB DANIEL Lobby Gallery / NAB Gallery, Chicago, IL, Sept. 2005 PAINTING- BEN DALLAS/TIM VAN LAAR New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN Aug.- Sept. 2002 imageTHE DIRECTIVE OBJECT- DALLAS AND KARRASCH Gallerie im Saalbau, Berlin, Oct. 2001 imageBEN DALLAS/VALERIE GILMAN Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL Feb. 2000 DALLAS, CLARK, AND POLLOCK Loyola University, Chicago, IL Jan. 2000 BEN DALLAS AND MICHAEL KOZIEN College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL July, 1999 DALLAS, GEICHMAN, AND POWELL Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL Mar. 1997 reviewBEAUTY AND THE THREE Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL May, 1997 Bradley University, Peoria, IL Aug. 1997 BEN DALLAS/MICHAEL HOPKINS Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL Mar. 1996 reviewTWO PAINTERS: DALLAS AND MATALAN Baylor University, June 1994 SHAPES OF SURFACE- DALLAS, POLLOCK AND RIZZO Wood Street Gallery Chicago, IL Sept. 1996 imageABSTRACTION -THE IMPLIED RULE- DALLAS AND ANDERSON NAB Gallery, Chicago, IL 1993 SELECT GROUP: SERENE, CALM, ETC- DALLAS, HAVLIS, BURLEIGH, NANCE KAPOOR, POLLOCK UkraInian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL Oct.- Nov. 2004 8TH ANNUAL SUMMER SUMMIT- POETOVIO, SLOVENIA, L.I.P.A. Gallery Sept. 2004 ALL OR NOTHING L.I.P.A. Gallery, Chicago, IL Mar. 2003 PUSH/PULL Chicago, IL Oct. 2002 CHICAGO ART EXPO Elizabeth Leach Gallery, May, 2002 ABSTRACT TRUTHS Hinsdale Center for the Arts, Hinsdale, IL, Jan. 2002 SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL ART EXPOSITION (Elizabeth Leach Gallery) Jan. 2002 CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA 2001 LAYERINGS Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 2001 INSTINCT Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA 1999 CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACTION- CHICAGO Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL 1999 SMALL SIGNIFICANT SCULPTURE -Ben Dallas, K. Hamanishi, Richard Hunt, Rob Lorenson, E. Maakestad, Bruce White, Deborah Lovely Fine Arts, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 1999 SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL ART EXPOSITION (Elizabeth Leach Gallery) 1999 THE CONSCIOUS LINE Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID 1999 SMALL WONDERS San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA 1996 SHAPE SHOW Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 1996 WANDERLUST-ABSTRACTION IN CHICAGO A.R.C. Gallery 1995 THOUGHT MANIFESTED-3D WORKS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL 1995 FASSBENDER GALLERY GROUP SHOW Chicago, IL 1995 RHONA HOFFMAN GALLERY GROUP SHOW Chicago, IL 1995 ABSTRACT CHICAGO Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL 1993 SMALL WORKS INTERNATIONAL Amos-Eno Gallery, New York, NY 1992 REVIEWS: "BEN DALLAS - Serial Works" - Alan G. Artner, Tribune Art Critic - Chicago Tribune April, 18 2006
"BEN DALLAS" - Tim Van Laar - Catalog Essay, Elizabeth Leach Gallery 2001
"BEN DALLAS: Recent Works" - Ed Maldonado - Chicago Cultural Center 1998
"Making Strange" - Fred Camper, Art Critic - Chicago Reader March, 27 1997
"The act of making their marks" - Alan G. Artner, Tribune Art Critic - Chicago Tribune April, 18 1996
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