Benjamin Echeverria
Paris Internationale
October 15th - 20th, 2024.
Francis Irv is pleased to present an exhibition by Benjmain Echeverria for the 2024 edition of Paris Internationale.
Echeverria’s process is one rooted in the revisiting of his archive – both an archive of physical, half-formed paintings and also a record of motifs and gestures, subject to the same distortion and recycling across his oeuvre. Paintings are finished and finished again, cutting and recomposing one ending into another beginning, a process through which the effacement and subsequent rehabilitation of the canvas becomes a recursive exercise. Within each successive re-articulation of the painting, the previous compositions exist within the present as traces of themselves. Through this process, Echeverria’s paintings evoke the process by which time is perceived, as both an accumulation of each past moment and a wholly singular moment at once.
Benjamin Echeverria (b. 1980, Waterloo, IA) lives and works in Los Angeles. Selected solo exhibitions include Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt am Main (2024, 2021); Francis Irv, New York (2023); Michael Benevento, Los Angeles (2022); Pose Falls, Bad Reputation, Los Angeles, CA (2020); Cups, Parapet Real Humans, St. Louis (2020); C.A.R., Green Drawing, Willie Mays, The Terror of Evidence, 3939, No Smoke, Bubbler, Corners Brought to Middle, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt am Main (2019). Selected group exhibitions include A String of Tongueless Bells, Francis Irv, New York (2024); Models, Bel Ami, Los Angeles (2024); Warm Invitations, Gattopardo, Los Angeles (2024); The Bower, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles (2023); Piano sale going on somewhere, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles (2023).
