| Metal Sculpture by Suzanne Benton |
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| Beloved, detail. welded steel, polyurethane finish 79x18 x 14 inches |
Menorah (Sabbath and Channukah-two extra branches fit on and off), bronze, 110 x 58 x 50 inches |
| Beloved, welded steel, polyurethane finis, 79x18 x 14 inches, two views |
| Detail, Tower II (from I am a Woman Theater Set copper coated steel, 9’5'x13”x10’5”-two views Queens College Rosenthal Library CUNY collection |
Suzanne Benton has created over 700 welded metal
sculpture works and masks. With a BA from Queens
College (CUNY) in Fine Arts, Benton went on to study
welded sculpture at the Silvermine School of Art, New
Canaan, CT, 1965. What she thought would be her last
masks.in 1996, those she brought to Sarajevo and Zenica,
Bosnia to lead mask and story workshops with refugee
women and youth, that is until she worked in Dhaka,
Bangladesh, 2011, leading a welding sculpture workshop,
Sculpture Department of Dhaka University and there
created two new welded masks.
Early on, Benton described her fascination with the
welding process: "I found my medium, the welding torch,
the great transformer. It brought me into a cosmic world. I
had to live in that sphere of consciousness every day,
watching, making the metal move according to my will, my
intuition, my brain; I was enchanted by the repetitive
actions and the shapes as they appeared before me." Her
artworks are in public and private collections worldwide.
sculpture works and masks. With a BA from Queens
College (CUNY) in Fine Arts, Benton went on to study
welded sculpture at the Silvermine School of Art, New
Canaan, CT, 1965. What she thought would be her last
masks.in 1996, those she brought to Sarajevo and Zenica,
Bosnia to lead mask and story workshops with refugee
women and youth, that is until she worked in Dhaka,
Bangladesh, 2011, leading a welding sculpture workshop,
Sculpture Department of Dhaka University and there
created two new welded masks.
Early on, Benton described her fascination with the
welding process: "I found my medium, the welding torch,
the great transformer. It brought me into a cosmic world. I
had to live in that sphere of consciousness every day,
watching, making the metal move according to my will, my
intuition, my brain; I was enchanted by the repetitive
actions and the shapes as they appeared before me." Her
artworks are in public and private collections worldwide.
| Mother and Child, copper coated steel, 16x22x14 in. |
| Pelvic Woman, copper coated steel, 20 x 20.5 x 17 in. |
| Delilah as the Sphinx copper coated steel,26 x13 x11 inches, front |
| Throne of the Sunqueen Rutgers University Alexander Library collection |
| Detail, Transcending Effort steel, 110 x 15 x 15 inches, Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport, CT collection |
