Featuring Ben Woodward
November 18 – December 20
The Shipley School
814 Yarrow Street
Bryn Mawr, PA
Ben Woodward was born in West Philadelphia in 1974. He is a founding member
of the artist group Space 1026, and he has shown in galleries and museums
from South Philadelphia to Japan. He currently lives with his wife, Chi;
daughter, Atari; and their one-eyed pug, Leroy.
The Dancing Critter series are part of The Graffiti For Five Year-Olds
Project, which grew from father-daughter drawing sessions.
“I was interested in the way she interpreted my art and the process of
drawing. I wanted her to be more engaged in the world around her and to
know she had a place in it. We would make drawings together at home that
I’d take to studio and clean up. I made prints from these and put them up
around the neighborhood. The prints were placed at little kid eye level and
I would wait for her to find them.”
Atari Woodward was not the only one to notice these characters. Spotting
Ben’s Dancing Guys became a neighborhood ritual, enjoyed by children and
adults. A friend near the corner of 4th and Brown offered Ben wall space
for a mural. Here one can see a great gathering of Dancing Guys, an index
of some of the many characters.
With 10 x 10 works by:
Chogrin Muñoz (aka Joseph Game)
Brooke Hine
Colleen Hammond
Jonathan Pinkett
Margaux Kent
Keith Breitfeller
Brad Carney
Kara LaFleur
David Guinn
Walter Kent
El Toro (Justin Nagtalon)
Deborah Curtiss