1970s Steel Metal Welded Sculpture of Three Faces Created by Well Known Artist Suzanne Benton

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This monumental work of art is a fascinating study of the human form, and suggests a relationship that is hierarchical, … Read more This monumental work of art is a fascinating study of the human form, and suggests a relationship that is hierarchical, spiritual and partially hidden and unknown. The sculpture is showing a complex emotional range using faces that have a spatial relationship to each other and to the viewer. The artist created a series of these sculptures which primarily dealt with issues related to marriage and childbearing years. In this particular piece there are three faces that appear almost in a mythical way. The Artist was a great believer in using myth to tell stories within her art. Perhaps, connecting us to our humanity past and present. Suzanne Benton is a native New Yorker who has shared her many-faceted art as a sculptor, mask performance artist, printmaker, painter, and workshop leader for 30+ years in 31 countries.
She's been represented in over one hundred fifty solo shows and two retrospectives. Her work is represented in museums, and private collections worldwide.
Benton is an original. While influenced by the tradition of the artist as one who seeks to illuminate cultural transformation and link present and past, she forges a contemporary path.
created over 700 welded steel and bronze metal sculpture works and masks. With a BA from Queens College (CUNY) in Fine Arts, Benton went on to study welded sculpture at the Silvermine School of Art, New Canaan, CT in1965. She'd thought she'd created her last masks in 1996 to bring to Sarajevo and Zenica, Bosnia one year after the war, to lead mask and story workshops with refugee women and youth. In 2011, she worked in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2011, leading a welding sculpture workshop at the Sculpture Department. Many of her works are presenting faces that are going through transformations of one kind or another.

Early on, Benton described her fascination with the welding process: "I found my medium, the welding torch, the great transformer. It brought me into a cosmic world. I had to live in that sphere of consciousness every day, watching, making the metal move according to my will, my intuition, my brain; I was enchanted by the repetitive actions and the shapes as they appeared before me." See less