Ben Sloat’s Counter Monument exhibit explores cultural vocabulary and materiality.

On View

July 8-August 13

Reception July 8 3-6 pm

Location

Gravedigger’s Daughter, 882 Main Street, Waldoboro, Maine 04572

Waldoboro, ME — Gravedigger’s Daughter announces the debut of “Counter Monument,” a multidisciplinary exhibition by Boston artist Ben Sloat. Sloat often uses elements of the vernacular in his works; generating hybrid social meanings and reflecting the artist's multiracial Taiwanese-American background. Working across mediums, the projects frequently find themselves considering the capacity of iconography, image, or light-based material, in a wide and inclusive definition of the "photographic". Cultural vocabulary is commonly used as a medium in the work, oscillating between an intimately personal voice and a larger societal one.

Works from this show engage with overlaps between the photographic, the sculptural, and architectural in terms of the landscape of material and the production of images. "Counter Monument" is comprised of a series of photographic works, pushed into unexpected material relationships, which share visuals outside of dominant narratives and constructions.

About the Artist

Ben Sloat

bensloat.com

@sloatie

Born and raised in New York City, Ben Sloat earned degrees from UC Berkeley and SMFA/Tufts.  His work has been shown in venues such as the Havana Biennial (Matanzas), Radium Art Center (Busan), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Dublin City Gallery/The Hugh Lane (Dublin), Peabody Essex Museum (Salem), Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond), and the Queens Museum. Solo exhibitions include those at Das Klohauschen (Munich), Steven Zevitas Gallery (Boston); Coop Gallery (Nashville), Galerie Laroche/Joncas (Montreal), Gallery 126 (Galway), Front Gallery (Oakland), and the American Cultural Center (Taipei). 
He is the director of the MFA in Visual Arts program at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.

Sloat is the recipient of a Ford Foundation Grant, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, and a Fulbright Grant.

This is Sloat’s first exhibition at Gravedigger’s Daughter.

Exhibition Access

The gallery is open weekends and by appointment by emailing office@gravediggersdaughter.org.

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About Gravedigger’s Daughter

Founded in 2021, Gravedigger’s Daughter is a contemporary art gallery open in Waldoboro, ME, by Maine native Jen Barrows, a Gravedigger’s Daughter.

Media inquiries

Jen Barrows, office@gravediggersdaughter.org