BEN SANDERS

BOOTH A15

VIP OPENING PREVIEW:
Mon, Nov 28: 1pm–8pm

HOURS:
Tue, 29 Nov: 11am–7pm
Wed, 30 Nov: 11am–7pm
Thu, 1 Dec: 11am–7pm
Fri, 2 Dec: 11am–7pm
Sat, 3 Dec: 11am–7pm

OCEAN DRIVE & 12TH STREET, MIAMI BEACH

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OCHI is pleased to participate in the 11^th edition of Untitled Art to take place in Miami Beach, Florida from November 29 through December 3, 2022, with a VIP and Press Preview on Monday, November 28. Located in Booth A15 within ‘Nest’—a progressive sector introduced in 2021 by curator Omar López-Chahoud to support emerging galleries—OCHI will present Post Existence Postcards, a solo presentation of new paintings by Ben Sanders.

Sanders’ Post Existence Postcards are striking scenes of highly-rendered earthscapes that offer visions of a post-human future. Colossal bioorganic and mineral masses form and hover over limitless seas, desert planes, cloud banks, icy-slick expanses, and perfectly peaked mountain ranges. Sanders’ subjects appear to radiate, drip, sublimate, condense, or erode, unblemished and still in deafening silence. This transformation of matter into massive sentience evolves in the absence of beauty and morality—since human consciousness represented the sole interest in measuring aesthetic perfection or determining good from evil.

Having come of age in a Southern California environment that celebrated art in service of a story, mood, or feeling, Sanders borrows from the logic of Hollywood set design while referencing analog graphic design. Sanders’ paintings create drama through form—surprising scale shifts, repeating textures ad infinitum, high-contrast color choice, and gravity-defying compositional alignments all work harmoniously towards an uncanny ambiance, a cinematic eeriness borne of an enigmatic future. In imagining a world beyond the contemporary, Sanders’ eccentric and optimistic scenes critique the temporality of the present as they speculate on a world beyond humanism, capitalism, dogma, and disillusionment.

Ben Sanders (b. 1989, Arcadia, California) received his BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Gagosian in Beverly Hills, CA; Asya Geisberg in New York, NY; Left Field in San Luis Obispo, CA; Carl and Sloan in Portland, OR; LVL3 in Chicago, IL; and OCHI in Los Angeles, CA and Sun Valley, ID. Sanders’ work has been commissioned by esteemed organizations including Nike, Dropbox, Louis Vuitton, and The New York Times and has been featured in publications including LA Weekly, Artillery Magazine, KCRW, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, The Oregonian, Amadeus Magazine, Wrap Magazine, and Paper Magazine. Sanders lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and is represented by OCHI in Los Angeles and Sun Valley, ID.