Paul Behnke
Taos, NM
Yellow Blade
Acrylic on canvas
44" x 42"
2022
$6000
About
Paul Behnke was born in Memphis, TN, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Memphis College of Art. Behnke’s paintings have been exhibited widely in the United States and internationally.
He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Heidelberg, Philadelphia, Saint Augustine, and Memphis, as well as group shows in San Francisco, Honolulu, London, Dublin, Paphos, Glasgow, The Netherlands, Cernay-lès-Reims and New York.
His work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic Weekend, The New Criterion and The New Republic. Behnke’s writings have appeared online at AbCrit: A Forum for Debate on Abstract Art, at The Painters’ Table and in print in Gamut a Southern regional art magazine, and No. Magazine. He was the co-editor of Shad Runn a self-published art-zine in Memphis, TN.
Artist Statement
My paintings are the result of being raised in America’s Deep South, in a fundamentalist religion, with television as a babysitter. The work co-mingles near obfuscated references from pop culture, religion and imagery associated with mysticism and the occult, with a slapdash, abstracted interplay of color that befogs the borders between high, gestural abstraction and Pop figuration.
Art from Paul Behnke in other TAAC exhibitions
This is Paul Behnke's first TAAC exhibition