Buffalo Trace
public reception May 7, 2009, 6 to 8pm
exhibit May 7 to May 29, 2009
www.4culture.org/publicart/gallery
Home and family are the epicenter of Zack Bent’s artwork – photographs and video derived from make-shift historic scenarios which he stages and directs, casting his two sons Ezra and Solomon and his wife Gala as stand-ins. The scenes reference the behaviors of other tribes and communities; for example in Buffalo Trace, Bent focuses on the Boy Scouts, an iconic American institution. Bent’s father was a Boy Scout within the Buffalo Trace Council in southern Indiana. “The tradition of scouting was handed down to me by him. And like the true Buffalo Trace, which was a migratory buffalo path through Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois that acted as road west for early Americans, scouting bears its trace in my life.
You can read more about Zack’s work on these blog posts:
Eyeteeth:
http://eyeteeth.blogspot.com/2009/07/eyeteeth-interview-zack-bent-on.html
Utne Reader:
http://www.utne.com/Spirituality/Collecting-Tears-as-an-Act-of-Love.aspx
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