Benjamin Staker: The Moon is a Mirror
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ᵔ▿ᵔ•ᴥ•:DThe Empty Circle is pleased to present The Moon is a Mirror, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Benjamin Staker, marking the gallery’s inaugural exhibition at its new permanent Tribeca location. The exhibition brings together a new body of work, which includes paintings and monotypes, that meditate on light, longing, and the liminal states between trauma and transcendence. Drawing on poetry and metaphor, Staker’s paintings use natural imagery—moons, tides, forests, skies—to explore how reflection itself can become a generative act.
About the Artist
Benjamin Staker is a painter whose work is a meditation on light and longing, harnessing poetry and metaphor by using natural imagery to explore trauma and triumph, and the eternal journey between the two. He studied Art History at the University of Washington and spent years wandering through Europe and Asia in hostels and on couches before moving to New York, where he earned his MFA from the New York Academy of Art in May 2024. He was awarded the 2024–2025 CHUBB Post-Graduate Fellowship and has exhibited in A Group Show at George Adams Gallery (2024), with CHUBB at Miami Art Basel (2024), and in a two-person show at Auxier Kline.
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