Bennett Lieberman
Bennett Lieberman is a poet and visual artist who has also worked in academia as a theoretical particle physicist, and in finance as a quantitative trader. The intertwining mysteries of nature and language, and a desire to engage in practices that dwell on them, has been a common thread in his research, his writing, and his studio practice. His visual art, often text-centered, explores the relationship between color, image, and language. Poems or fragments of language, when viewed as overlays to paintings, photos, and color fields or as collage elements in other fine-art objects, acquire physical characteristics. Conversely, the visual elements resonate with transient and oblique meanings evoked by the associated texts. Recent projects have explored art as a window onto consciousness.