Works By Ben Fink
Unique Encaustic Mixed Media
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"Saint Michael's Day on Earth" 2023
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The Eternity Loop: The Legend of the Soulmates 2023
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"Eternal Yearning: The Half-God's Pursuit" 2023
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"The Face in the Lake: A Tale of Magic from Magusia"
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Nude Study 2023
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"The Sacred Waters: A Tale of Love and Healing"
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"Mrko Vlenzula: The Divine Offering"
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“The Minotaur’s Secret” Art and Text by Ben Fink 2023
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Chapter 1, The Prisoner of Arena Di Verona For the project "Modern Mythology" Art and writing by Ben Fink 2023
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Chapter 2, The Prisoner of Arena Di Verona For the project "Modern Mythology." Art and writing by Ben Fink 2023
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Chapter 3, “ The Bathhouse” Art and Text by Ben Fink 2023
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“The Sack of The Eternal City” 2023
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“Behind the art and myth,” 2023
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“The Recovery Mission”
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“They know not what they do” 2022
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“The Burden” 2022
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"The Path is Mine and Mine Alone" 2022
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"The inner conflict” 2022
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"The Beauty We Are” 2022
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“The Fabric of Generations Permeates each Cell of Your Body” 2022
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“For the Rights of Human and Animal” 2022
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"The Offering" - 2021 - Unique - W60x H40 x D1.5 - $7,500-$10,000
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"The Taming" - 2021 - Unique - W43x H60 x D1.5" - $7,500 - $10,000
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"The Duality of Conscious and Unconscious" 2021
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"Love Rage" 2021
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"Nocturnal Animal No 1" 2021
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"Daydreaming Fawn" 2021
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"Never Unseen NO 1" 2021
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"Our Collective History NO. 1" 2021
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"Reclining Venus" 2021
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"The Incarnation Of Artemisia" 2021
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"Goliath's Puppets" 2021
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"Go Ahead Knock Yourself Out" 2020
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"A Vision No 1" 2021
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"In The Clutches of Self-Doubt" 2021
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"The Temptation of Gabriel" 2021
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"Into The Incalculable Abyss" 2021
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"And The War Raged On" 2021
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"And They Devoured" 2020
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"The More You Dream, The More You Can Do" 2021
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“Cynocephalus or Anubis” 2021
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"A Lovers Quarrel" 2021
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"Between Struggle and Resistance" 2021
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"Muy Peligro Mi Hermano" 2021
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"The Sign Of An Anointed Gesture" 2021
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"The War of Gods and Giants" 2021
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"Falling From Grace" 2020
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"In The Light Of Creation" 2021
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"Morning Light No. 1" 2021
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"The Grasp For Meaning" 2021
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"See Me For Who I Am" 2021
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"All Turned Around No. 1 Censored" 2021
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"THEY" 2021
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"The Anguish" 2021
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"Study of a man No. 3" censored 2021
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"He, She, They, Them" 2021
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"By the light of Hermes" 2021
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"The Devil Within" 2021
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"From One World Into Another" 2021
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"Blessings In Disguise" 2021
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"Ringing Of The Forgotten Bells" 2021
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"Caravaggio's Muse" 2021
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"Go Ahead Knock Yourself Out" 2020
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"Into The Garden" 2021
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"Concupiscent Minotaur" 2021
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"It Would Take An Army" 2021
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"Judged By Fear" 2021
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"The Reach" 2021
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"Lying In Wait No. 1" 2021
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"Memories beneath the surface of Lake Titicaca" 2021
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"Light as a Feather" 2021
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"The Sweat Of Labor"
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"The Rise Of The Fallen" 2021
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"We Will Riseup" 2020
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"When One Pauses The Possibilities are Limitless"
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"You Didn't See This Coming" 2021
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"Chad No. 3" 2019
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"Fallen Angel"
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"To Grasp History In The Hall Of Records" 2021
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"Blinding Truth"
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"The Dreams Of A Jinn" 2021
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"Sheep's Clothing" 2021
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"I'm Yours Now"
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"In Wonderment" 2021
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"The Rubaiyat"
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"Court"
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"Man by the Window"
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"Ordo Pose"
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"Gabe's Hat"
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"Thirty Coins" 2022
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“On My Own Two Feet” 2022
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“Imagine That” 2022
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“Enraged” 2022
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“Blue men of the Minch” Art By Ben Fink 2022
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:In Celtic Dreams" 2022
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'The reflection of vulnerability” 2022
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“Painted figure” 2022
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"A Mirrors can only show partial truths” 2022
"Modern Day Myth and Mythology" The Series
In my photographs, I transform everyday people into characters in romantic and fantastical modern mythology. I work with models from all walks of life–from doctors to sex workers to other artists. Through extensive post-production, I put them into settings of epic proportion. These models are seen through an objectifying gaze which simultaneously casts them as hypermasculine while also allowing them to be vulnerable.
To form the backgrounds of the works, I combine fragments of paintings with my own photographs of landscapes and architectural spaces. This mix of elements creates an out-of-time effect in the works and makes the models godlike. Each image has an indeterminate narrative quality, which allows viewers to emotionally connect to the work and give it its final shape.
The work exists between painting and photography, influenced equally by artists in both disciplines. Renaissance painters like Jan van Eyck, Michelangelo, and Titian inspire the compositions and narrative, and the style is reminiscent of Baroque painters such as Johann Heinrich Schönfeld-Opferszene, Caravaggio, and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. I weave in the romanticism of photographers like Edward Steichen and Julia Margaret Cameron as well as the hypersexual gaze of Robert Mapplethorpe.
The works, as objects, also straddle these mediums. I re-render some key compositions in oil on canvas, whereas others are encaustic photographs, meaning that the surface is treated with wax and pigment. Both of these processes heighten the depth of the images by building up the surface.