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Steve DiBenedetto’s Cosmic Sense of the Absurd

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Steve DiBenedetto’s Cosmic Sense of the Absurd
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Steve DiBenedetto, who began exhibiting in the 1980s, has become one of the best painters of his generation. A bundle of contradictions, restlessly moving between figuration and abstraction, he loves to push the paint around in his work — adding, scraping, changing — as he seeks links between the body and visionary states. The otherworldliness we encounter in his work is comic and unnerving, the perfect combination for these upside-down times.The title of his current exhibition at

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