Hidden Waters / Arid Land Springs at Florida Museum of Photographic Arts Exhibition 2021
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Benedict’s projects center on the role that landscape plays in the human experience. Her focus is on unrecognized, under-valued yet important elements of the natural world. Her earlier projects, range from the role of landscape in creating memory - Distant Places; to electrical towers interruption of the American Western landscape - Gridlines; to a child’s imaginary play in natural history dioramas - Field Trip, Re-Imagining Eden; Benedict’s recent work - Hidden Waters combines art and science to envision the impacts of climate change and overuse on endangered arid-land springs in the American West.
Gridlines in the Overgrowth Exhibition at Decordova Museum of Art & Sculpture 2014
Earth Now American Photographers and the Environment - book cover photograph Cedar Wash from Gridlines Click here to purchase: Earth Now, American Photographers and the Environment by Katherine Ware
Benedict’s images are at Los Angeles County Art Museum, Center for Photography, Tucson; Florida Museum of Photographic Arts; New Mexico Museum of Art; Decordova Museum of Art and Sculpture, Harvard's Fogg Museum, and George Eastman Museum. Solo exhibitions include Clark County Library, Las Vegas, NV, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Griffin Museum of Photography at Stoneham, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX; and Philadelphia Print Center. The Hidden Waters archive resides in the Museum of Art & Environment, Reno Nevada.
Recent awards include Project Launch Award CENTER Santa Fe 2023; Juror’s Award, Karen Haas Juror, Conversations with the Land 2022 , Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, 2021; Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist 2021; Juror’s Honorable Mention, 2021, Art and Science 2, at A. Smith Gallery 2021; Critical Mass Top 200, 2019; the FENCE, New England, 2019; Legacy Award, Griffin Museum of Photography; two Puffin Foundation Grants; and three residencies one at the Museum of Northern Arizona 2011, and one at Joshua Tree Highlands Residency in 2022; and Shoshone Art Residency in 2024; Photographer Mark Klett chose Quitobaquito Springs for inclusion in his book - Wild Visions. Lucy Lippard included 2 photographs in her book: Undermining.
Recent exhibitions include: In 2023 - Ceding Ground with Simon Norfolk and Camille Seamman at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA; 2023; Women in Nature with Maya Goded and Alejandra Torres-Platt, at the Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ, and Reshaping Earth: Energy and the Environment, Jamie Stillings, David Emiitt Adam and Bremner Benedict, Photoeye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
Two images from Hidden Waters are in the Autry Museum of the American West’s Out of Site: Survey Science and the Hidden West exhibition and accompanying book by Edited by Amy Scott, with William L. Fox, Mark Klett, Hillary Mushkin, Britt Salvesen, Kim Stringfellow, Jason Weems and Will Wilson. In 2024 Bremner will have a solo exhibition of Hidden Waters at the Clark County Library in Las Vegas, NV