Bob Benvenuto

Bob Benvenuto was born and raised in New York City. Bob attended the School Of Visual Arts in New York City and completed a Masters Degree in Expressive Therapies at Lesley College in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1980. He moved to Pueblo in 1988 and opened an artsan textile printing studio called Mesa Shadow. He started using digital photography in 1996 as a design tool which evolved into his current means of expression. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Boston and Santa Fe as well as at Colorado State University Pueblo, The Colorado State Capitol Building, Kadoya, and the Blo Back Gallery in Pueblo. He has also been selected three times to exhibit in the annual Representing The West exhibit at The Sangre De Cristo Arts Center. The artist has been featured on photoplacegallery.com, zealous.com, artistaday.com, and risunoc.com. His work is in the perminant collections of Colorado State University, Pueblo, and The Crawford Hotel in Denver as well as private collections nationally.

Is our vision of the world around us skewed in this advancing age of technology against a backdrop of decaying cultural and physical infastructure. In this age of information overloadit is increasingly difficult to distinguish the authentic from the fake. With so many contradictory images that stare at us from our personal devices, we are deprived of being able to rely on our most elemental senses to validate our experience. An orchestrated narrative, artificial of course but they are not illusions. These composite images record the world of appearances seen through a veil of conjecture and contrivance.