Ben Crawford
Fort Peck Reservation Missoula, MT
Blackfeet, Assniboine and Sioux
Exhibit Year: 2016-2017
About the Artist
Ben Crawford is a resident of Missoula, MT. Having Graduated from the University of Montana receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Sculpture and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology his recent work has focused on stark landscape, the impact of the artificial environment that humans find themselves in and how that affects how they/we see our remaining natural world.
Artist Statement
Vanishing Points Human Landscape has come to mean something different than Natural Landscape. We have altered our environment to an extent that we often feel uneasy in it. Perhaps there has always been an anxious disconnect and thus we have have a tradition to create artificial structure to help us feel more in control. Montana and the west still appears to have a balance of Human effect and the sublime Natural world. Vanishing Points is an abstraction of that tenuous but growing awareness that the spaces we look to are being overtaken by our attempts to keep connected.