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Steve DiBenedetto was born in Bronx, New York in 1958. He received his BFA in 1980 from Parsons School of Design,
and currently lives and works in New York City.
DiBenedetto is best known for thickly layered paintings and prismatic pencil drawings populated by organic and mechanic forms.
Undulating octopi, arms twisted in Celtic-like knots, and hovering helicopters, blades madly turning, are common motifs.
Ferris wheels, also on their circular path, make appearances, as do remnants of forgotten architecture and celestial beings.
The serpentine structures of DiBenedetto's work seem to be in a constant state of apocalyptic decomposition, but are simultaneously
alive and charged with palpable electricity.
In his first print, History of Separation, 2004, DiBenedetto masterfully employed line etching to produce a print that vibrates with Baroque decay, the active elements in the image's
composition linked by the stretched and knotted tentacles of a palpitating octopus.
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