Ben Tolman lives and works in Washington DC. He recieved his MFA in 2012 from American Universiy and his BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design in 2005. He has exhibited work nationally and internationally including being an exhibited finalist in the prestigious Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
As artist states in his
SITE:
I was raised in a conservative Mormon family. The meaning of life
came in a neat packaged box but fell apart with the slightest bit of
scrutiny. Long ago as a child, I abandoned any existing cultural mythology
as an explanation for life and have been exploring this mystery, and
creating my own mythology through art, ever since. Without any
prepackaged creation stories, I have the freedom to just reflect on the
mystery, beauty and horror of it all without any prejudice. The more I learn,
the stranger everything becomes. But this grandeur of possible thoughts
and experiences has to still be tempered with the same mundane tasks
and struggles of the daily slog through life that has always been with
mankind.
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