HENRY BANGER BENVENUTI
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female portrait, ray charles and male portrait
A video still uv “The Ballet Dirge uv War”. In collaboration with Nancy Oliveri and AI, we show sunflowerz the national flower uv Ukraine, with Russian dancerz in masque’z, dancing on the dead frozen sunflowers, with a war scene background, in a poetic video protest against immature, childish, adult behaviour!
“The Guardhouse”, left to right: Bridget Bardot, Woody Guthrie, Yoko and John Lennon, Rosa Parks, Malala Yousafzai, Jerry Rubens, Abbie Hoffman, Martin Luther King and sleeping guard!
Walden Pond
Football Watermelon Baseball
Flamenco Club Dancing
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“Raven Feedin a Prophet” iz a 5 second visual poem uv a raven feedin the Spirit uv a Prophet rendered with the help uv Nancy Oliveri and her 8 year experience with AI.
2, 4, and Six Lovers
poster hung in cbgb’z in 1978 calling all genrez uv artists to submit to an exhibition that waz titled new-wave punk but changed to no-wave punk.
dancers at the mudd club,1978
sid vicious, bass player for the punk band ‘sex pistols’.
Estero Island, Florida 2 yearz after hurricane Ian destroyed most uv the island.
ARTIST’Z STATEMENT
I began my artistic career servin professionally az an illustrator-journalist in the U.S. Army. I waz drafted in 1972 during the Vietnam era and released with an Honorable Discharge in 1975 and immediately began working for the family bakery delivering bread to nearby Ohio and West Verginia restaurants and supermarkets for a coupla yearz before the bakery went bankrupt. I then decided to move to New York on the Lower Eastside of Manhattan, the center of the New York punk scene to pursue an art career. Amid the Lower Eastside’z thriving punk culture i brainstormed and participated in organizing the first punk no-wave art exhibition in 1978 at the Nonson Gallery located in Soho at 133 Wooster Street between Houston and Prince streets. This exhibition fulfilled my desire to challenge the capitalist coup d’etat of the New York art gallery scene. knowing that i would be deceived and black listed by the social grip of the vulture committee uv that era. i waz livin off the GI bill payin for classes at the Art Students League and apartment rental which left me with just enough money to eat. Flat broke with no job i began collecting magazines in the garbage uze’in them az a medium for my creationz. i would sell them from the street az a pirate street vendor makin enough money to buy art suppliez. however i continued uzing magazinez az my primary medium. i soon began to see the magazine figurez az becoming societiez false sense uv imagery, a mass media reality uv the blind leading the blind cocophany. i then had a reason to create, with a confronting “INSIDE THE OUTSIDE” viewpoint.
cabeza masculina, gato jaguar con un pájar, chica con 2 espejos
Magdalene Vase, clay, courtesy of Beth Ann & Dino Benvenuti, covert crucifixion, Gabriel
Gun god, Peer Violence Violent Peer, Outside Eden
Arrival in Bethlehem
GiGi Woolworth, Lauren Hutton, Parisian Female
After the Battle uv Anghiari never finished by Da Vinci, finished by Rubenz
Solome with John’s Head, Stoning uv Saint Stephen, The Worshipping uv the Golden Calf
List uv Collectorz
David Cronenberg, Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Diana Osana, Agnes b., Gregory Corso, Nicholas Helion, Jean Michel Basquiat, A-One, Sharon Gless, John & Joanne Rooney, Jake Woolworth, Michael Woolworth, Gigi Woolworth, William Coupon, J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, Stephen Lack, Andrew Ainsworth, Scott Nussbaum, Robert Aaron, Michael & Denise Terral, William Coupon, Felicia & Francisco Baixauli, Maripol MP, Henry & Geralyn Sneath
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