Outsiders and Others is excited to present a solo exhibition with Vancouver artist Ben Brandes. 

This will be Ben's first exhibition in a gallery. 

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About the artist:

Benjamin Brandes is a "self-taught" visual artist/musician/singer-songwriter. Ben was born and raised inWindsor, Ontario, and is now based in Vancouver, BC. 

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From Benjamin:

"Lucky to have been a teenager in a band in Windsor during the 90s, my youth was filled with music, mania, anxiety, depression, weird drawings, extreme experimentation and sculpture-making. Those early days, mixed with 8 strangely unforgettable, magical years in the thick of the Montreal music scene (2006 - 2014)continue to feed my creative monster to this day. 

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Working with paint revealed itself to me five years ago, in the form of an abandoned canvas, stretched and ready, just leaning against a dumpster. I added my 2 cents (and then some) to the surface and it's been a thing ever since. Rescued canvas and found surfaces (paper, tabletops, orphaned custom canvases, etc.)have become a safe haven for my darkness and anxiety; a safe place where the crippling waves can mix with my weird, wonderful and complicated past."