EZRA BENUS
  • Painting/Drawing/Collage
    • select works 2014-2020
    • select works 2011-2013
  • Brothers Sick
  • Sculpture/Installation
    • Bottles/Always
    • Shortness of Breath
  • Performance
    • Thanks For Visiting
    • לֹך לֹך/Go Forth/Go To Yourself
    • Fourth Text
    • 69th & Park
  • CV
  • About/Contact
mage description: captures a moment when a blue gloved nurse’s hands holding my arm with one hand, while the other hand inserts an IV needle into a protruding vein. My arm is stretched and strained, and my hand is in a fist
“The Embrace or Honey, Make A Fist For Me”, 2019. Photo part of hospital series exploring relationships of care, pain, vulnerability, and medicalization.
The whole image is in variants of greyscale, reminiscent of x-ray or other scans. bisecting the frame there are two images of the same back of the hand posed with most of the fingers curled inwards, with the pointer finger fully raised. Overlaid on the image is text that reads An Army Of The Sick Can’t Be Defeated.
An Army Of The Sick Can’t Be Defeated (2019), 11 x 17 inches, photograph on aluminum.
Image description: left side of composition shows a green sleeved arm of a nurse wearing a metallic banded watch, and a blue latex glove, resting fingers on a metallic pan or tray that has four vials of my blood resting on the far right corner. The wall behind this is white and the grey and white patterned curtain is grazing the top right side of the frame
“Me/You or Does It Become Us?” 2019, part of hospital photo series on relationships of care, pain, vulnerability, medicalization.
An image in variants of grey-blue scale, reminiscent of x-ray results, showing a glaring fluorescent room with 5 empty hospital beds and chairs on a diagonal, arranged from the bottom right of the image to the middle left section. Text that says NETWORKS OF CARE CAN AND SHOULD BE CONTAGIOUS is layered from top right to bottom right of the image in transparent red and grey shaded font. Each bed stall has an empty hospital bed
Illness Finds Us All, Care Unfortunately Does Not, 2020, digital image and text, Brothers Sick (Noah and Ezra Benus)
Image description: Ezra is wearing a light blue hospital gown, staring directly to the camera. He is centered in the photograph sitting cross legged on a wooden dock, with trees and a lake as the backdrop on a grey skied day, giving an ominous and contemplative ambiance.
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  • Painting/Drawing/Collage
    • select works 2014-2020
    • select works 2011-2013
  • Brothers Sick
  • Sculpture/Installation
    • Bottles/Always
    • Shortness of Breath
  • Performance
    • Thanks For Visiting
    • לֹך לֹך/Go Forth/Go To Yourself
    • Fourth Text
    • 69th & Park
  • CV
  • About/Contact