Studio series focusing on disused electronics, as well as flora and fauna.

About Benn Innes:

Born in Knoxville, TN, Ben Innes now works, eats and sleeps in Minneapolis, MN. He gained his BFA in photography from the Minneapolis College Of Art and Design in the spring of 2009. (About)

First spotted via Coudal Partners.

Artist’s statement: “Taking inspiration from Dutch Vanitas paintings, these photographs incorporate personal artifacts within the tradition construct of still life. Pairing objects that belongs to my gandmother with my own possessions speaks to memory and the legacy that one leaves behind. Both the decomposition of the nature (rotting fruit and wilting flowers) and the break down of the man-made-objects, reference the physical body and mortality. The objects bear witness to a spiritual trace or imprint that is left behind or residual.” (visit Justine Reyes’ official website).

Sometime photography is inspired by painting, sometime painting seems to imitate photography.

Strange tales of silent destruction and partial fragmentation in Grasso’s work. Here’s what Ed Schad (curator and independant writer working over at ArtSlant) had to say about it:

“Ben Grasso, like many contemporary painters, takes decay as his subject matter, but unlike those painters (often eager to watch the world burn), Grasso seems to follow the enthusiasm of his brushstrokes and the buoyancy of his color into realms laced with whimsy and imagination. His houses are in shreds and crumbling, you see a white flag of surrender, he dashes off a couple of shacks in the jungle, but Grasso doesn’t believe that these ruins denote the end of things — flickers of light shimmer and whirls of white burst into the air.” (read more)

Check out what Adam Voorhes has to tell show about himself. View more of the Exploded series. Read an interesting interview about the creative process he follow for the Exploded series. Visit his official website.