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For immediate release:
Showing February 2004:

Beniah Leuschke,

"Dumb Mobs Bomb Mud"

Opening: Saturday, February 14th, 2pm - 6pm
Closing Auction: Saturday, March 27th, 2pm - 5pm,

Complete show sold by silent bid.

Telephonebooth is proud to start the 2004 spring season with a solo show of recent work by Beniah Leuschke. Beniah is an artist of exceptional technical ability who pursues questions relating to language and human experience. The palindrome, a language figure that reads in both directions, is the point of departure for his prints, drawings, and steel sculptures. Beniah’s hunt for this elusive language figure and its material evocation takes him from the sublime to the surreal of everday human exchange and interaction. His high-craft objects become absurdist and disjunctive questions but also post-ironic markers on the positions between language and human life.
These questions and objects make puzzle forms that must be jiggled like a chinese box to open, they are playful, irreverant and fun. Beniah’s body of work has been consistently strong and bold and as his technical expertise accumulates, his work is also keeping pace as singular and hilarious in its vision.

Beniah, an alumnus of KCAI, graduated in 1998 from the photo-new media department. He has worked with currators Tom Gregg and Marcus Cain and has previously had a solo show at Telephonebooth, in November 2002.