Garry Knox Bennett: Lights Out
On View: November 9 – December 15, 2018
Reception: Friday, November 9, 6-8 pm
After threatening that his previous two shows on the east coast would be his last, Garry Knox Bennett has agreed to do his final exhibition at Gallery NAGA.
Widely acknowledged as a master in the world of furniture making, Garry Knox Bennett has had dozens of traveling retrospectives, has taught and lectured extensively and has had his work represented in major museums. His place in the lexicon of studio furniture is firmly established.
His recent work, the focus of his show at NAGA, centers around lamps he’s made in the last five years. Working smaller and more slowly, the 84- year -old continues to explore complex relationships between sculptural forms. Each lamp is proof that a skilled maker, such as Bennett, can achieve concise and exciting gems in small configurations.
garry knox bennett
Garry Knox Bennett (1934-2022) was widely acknowledged as a master in the world of furniture making. Most furnituremakers work from designs. Garry, however, did not draw or plan: instead he worked from intuition and inspiration. Like a painter constructing a painting, Garry allowed each shape to inform the next.
He had dozens of traveling retrospectives, the most recent at the Richmond Art Center in Richmond, California entitled, Vertical at 75. His 2006 traveling retrospective, Call Me Chairmaker, which began at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue Washington, toured through 2009.
read artist’s biography
download press release
