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Erik Bender’s stark, esoteric paintings depict a realm beyond the visible. His carved surfaces of loose figures and abstracted symbols overlap and align into structural compositions that loom in a cosmic nowhere bathed in moonlight.

At the intersection of drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking, Bender’s practice transmutes material and subject into images with a discreet and mysterious physicality. The work hangs heavy and elegant on the wall like a numinous artifact glimpsed from another world.