{"id":10862,"date":"2024-10-07T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10862"},"modified":"2024-10-02T07:45:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T11:45:52","slug":"karen-bennicke-at-hb381","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/07\/karen-bennicke-at-hb381\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Bennicke at HB381"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Karen Bennicke\u2019s richly colored ceramic sculptures are a puzzle, their cubist forms appearing at first to represent street art, alien bodies, signage, or toys.\u00a0 Once visitors to her exhibition at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hb381gallery.com\/exhibitions\/manhattan-portraits#tab-1:thumbnails\">HB381<\/a> spot the maps of Manhattan on the gallery\u2019s back wall, however, each tangle of lines and shapes materializes into a segment of the island\u2019s street map.\u00a0 We can\u2019t see but we can imagine that work, leisure, recreation and every aspect of city life takes place in the locations pictured, a representation of possibility more than experience.\u00a0 At the same time, Bennicke\u2019s sculptures speak to histories of settlement and the myriad decisions that went into what our urban environment looks like today.\u00a0 (On view in Tribeca through Oct 19<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/8d0eb0ca-d561-2387-b7a4-a88aa784e30e.jpg\" width=\"2186\" height=\"2740\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Bennicke, MP IVA, terracotta, slab built, 40.5\u201d H x 13.5\u201d W x 9.25\u201d D, 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Bennicke\u2019s richly colored ceramic sculptures are a puzzle, their cubist forms appearing at first to represent street art, alien bodies, signage, or toys.\u00a0 Once visitors to her exhibition at HB381 spot the maps of Manhattan on the gallery\u2019s back wall, however, each tangle of lines and shapes materializes into a segment of the island\u2019s &hellip; 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