Assistant Professor of Art and Design
338 Fine Arts Center // x3166 // benjamin.gardner@drake.edu
Benjamin Gardner's website >> Space of Memory Project >>
Methods of Being, a collection of artists' writings >>
Benjamin Gardner teaches all levels of drawing at Drake University. He received his MFA from Illinois State University and BFA from Millikin University. Recent exhibition venues include Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Dog and Pony Projects in Buffalo, violet poe projects in Bloomington, Illinois; the Contemporary Art Center in Las Vegas and the Des Moines Art Center in the exhibition Iowa Artists 2010. Gardner also teaches courses within the Honors Program at Drake.
Gardner's studio work involves his research in superstition, divination, folk traditions and how these ideas relate to our identity and understanding of space and time. The implications of the individual being involved in non-scientific practices that transcend understanding or explanation are a vehicle for his studio production. To this end Gardner has been working with numerology, hex signs, mandalas, and constellations in his most recent mixed media paintings.
