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Be Not Afraid by Benjamin Truong

$485.00

2024

Mezzotint stone lithograph on masa

17.5” x 26”

In the present day, not all artworks even exist in the physical realm. The ocean of two-dimensional works has been poisoned by generative Ai and corporate greed. Printmaking to me is a hybrid between a loving craft and an artist's commodity. An artist with skill, love, and craft can produce something that is sharable, unique and physical. My own work can take historical and political forms, which has always had a symbiosis with the history of print.

We live in an age where everything has to be fast, efficient, and produced without any love or skill required. My artistic practice is the antithesis of that, I am slow and inefficient, however I pride myself on the amount of love and care I put into my images, matrixes, and printmaking process.

Benjamin Truong

2024

Mezzotint stone lithograph on masa

17.5” x 26”

In the present day, not all artworks even exist in the physical realm. The ocean of two-dimensional works has been poisoned by generative Ai and corporate greed. Printmaking to me is a hybrid between a loving craft and an artist's commodity. An artist with skill, love, and craft can produce something that is sharable, unique and physical. My own work can take historical and political forms, which has always had a symbiosis with the history of print.

We live in an age where everything has to be fast, efficient, and produced without any love or skill required. My artistic practice is the antithesis of that, I am slow and inefficient, however I pride myself on the amount of love and care I put into my images, matrixes, and printmaking process.

Benjamin Truong

Benjamin Truong is a first generation Asian American artist, born and raised in New York, Long Island. He is a MFA candidate at Stony Brook University. Truong works with traditional art mediums such as ink, oil, watercolor, and lithography. He has also served as the teaching assistant for Howardena Pindell, Jason Paradis and Lorena Salcedo-Watson. Truong has participated and was chosen for several exhibitions including LBIF’s 35 under 35 (2024), North Carolina’s SCHWA Show (2024), Aspace’s “OOPS UNFORTUNATELY” (2025), Kobe Japan's Exchange Program (2025), and the Heckscher Museum's "Just Powers" Biennial. His work deals in dystopic etiology, with overarching themes of absurdism and surrealism.