The story of a lifetime is the blink of an eye.

EXHIBIT EXTENDED THROUGH FRIDAY DECEMBER 5

CLOSING RECEPTION FIRST FRIDAY DECEMBER 5, 4-7 PM

Exhibit runs November 17-December 5

Reception: November 23, 1-4 pm

Gallery Hours:  Monday – Friday, 1-5 pm (closed Thanksgiving Day November 27)

By appointment:  Lauralee Alben, 831-426-6264

Group tours are also available.  

Experiencing Ben’s artistic legacy is transformative, healing and provocative.  It’s a sacred journey across time, one in which Ben’s life serves as a fractal of our world today in the midst of a great transition.  In this memorial exhibit, if you open our heart, you’ll feel the embrace of Ben’s love-the blessing in his brushstrokes; the thrum of life in his music; the passion in his poetry; the resonance in his wisdom.

“It’s all about love.  Everything around us wanted to be born so it could be loved in some form.”-Ben Faris

Throughout Ben’s all too short, intense life, he chronicled his agonizing struggles and enlightening experiences.  These converged into a wondrous flow and flowering of his own becoming. On view are three periods of Ben’s adulthood and the art reflecting his spiritual awakening, simultaneous suffering and healing and his becoming.  A prolific artist, Ben transcribed his soul’s evolution with the intent to share each step on his healing path with us.

Ben painted his visionary Spirit World series as a teenager.  It continues to resonate deeply today.  His Spirit Beings have a language, ethics, a purpose, and a culture in which the call of ancient peoples is merged with the gritty pulse of contemporary culture.  Created within the context of our world as a whole, Ben breathed reverence for life into his art to inspire us to fall in love with the earth again.

Land Spirits, 2007

Koi Wears Spirit Mask, 2015

The Weaving Together, 2015

 

Beam Me Home, 2016