Teddy Benfield & Tara Lewis: Cover Story: Two-Person Exhibition

Abigail Ogilvy Gallery is pleased to present Cover Story, a two-person exhibition featuring new paintings by Tara Lewis (NY) and Teddy Benfield (RI). Cover Story brings together Teddy Benfield and Tara Lewis in an exhibition that reconsiders still life as a site of narrative construction, where objects shift from passive subjects to active agents of meaning. The works on view invite a reading aligned with what Bill Brown has described as “thingness:” the moment when objects exceed their function and assert a presence that is cultural, psychological, and affective. Through this lens, both artists challenge how we locate ourselves in relation to the material world and the systems of meaning it sustains.