Steve DiBenedetto: A Denatured Humanism
Dan Nadel writes: ‘On the evening that I first walked out of Steve DiBenedetto’s new exhibition of paintings, “Toasted with Everything,†I looked up at the navy sky, down the asphalt street, and felt dizzy with euphoria. A later visit helped me articulate my pleasure: DiBenedetto had made sensual, profound, and profoundly imaginative paintings that are certain of their purpose but impossible to pin down. They are, as he told me later, like slot machines that never stop spinning. Watching the spinning numbers and symbols, which, in these paintings, are bodily masses and gracefully pulsating color applications, gave me a glorious buzz.’
