| 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) as a Fine
Arts major, Benton went on to study welded
sculpture at the Silvermine School of Art, New
Canaan, CT in 1965. Her final metal masks,
created in 1996. were carried to Sarajevo and
Zenica, Bosnia where Benton led a series of
mask and story workshops for mainly refugee
women and youth. That is until Benton again
traveled to Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2011 to lead
a welding sculpture workshop at the Sculpture
Department of Dhaka University and created
two 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." Many of these artworks
are in public and private collections worldwide.
welded metal sculpture works and masks. With
a BA from Queens College (CUNY) as a Fine
Arts major, Benton went on to study welded
sculpture at the Silvermine School of Art, New
Canaan, CT in 1965. Her final metal masks,
created in 1996. were carried to Sarajevo and
Zenica, Bosnia where Benton led a series of
mask and story workshops for mainly refugee
women and youth. That is until Benton again
traveled to Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2011 to lead
a welding sculpture workshop at the Sculpture
Department of Dhaka University and created
two 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." Many of these 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 |
| Delilah as the Sphinx, copper coated steel, 26 x13 x11 in., side view |
| Throne of the Sunqueen Rutgers University Alexander Library collection |
| Detail, Transcending Effort steel, 110 x 15 x 15 inches, Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport, CT collection |
