FRESCO Welcomes New Advisor M. Benjamin Herndon
Today, we are welcoming M. Benjamin Herndon, artist and professor at Rhode Island School of Design, to FRESCO’s advisory team.
Herndon received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2012, and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2016. In addition to Marble House, Herndon has been awarded residencies and fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. He currently lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, and teaches in the printmaking department at RISD.
M. Benjamin Herndon is a visual artist whose painting practice involves a laborious preparation of surfaces composed of gelatin, marble dust, and pigments on linen, which become luminous grounds for minimal silverpoint drawings. These material interactions, their subtle compositional intention and optical experience with regards to the interaction of light and movement, combine in a quiet conversation that provide for moments of discovery.
His works are widely exhibited at and collected by museums and private collectors in the U.S. and around the world, such as Tang Contemporary Art, the NARS Foundation, and RI Convention Center.
My painting practice borrows from the historical techniques of silverpoint and gesso making, but I’ve placed these materials in a contemporary context that references newer art histories.
With this series [lead lines] I’ve thought about disruption: a pattern starts out under flexible conditions, and with a combination of intentional interruption and entropy, the pattern breaks down. In the end, this subtle chaos creates something that resembles patterns in the natural world.
I see this work as a metaphor for hope amidst melancholy, and for embracing the chaos that disrupts the orderly.
Herndon, as art advisor of FRESCO, will surely infuse the project with more creative and fresh elements.
FRESCO is the world’s first blockchain art trust value distribution network.
Through blockchain technology, FRESCO enables artists, investors, dealers, galleries, and administrators around the world to demonstrate their artworks and evaluate collection strength, eventually creating an efficient and intuitive art value measurement system. FRESCO tokens (FRES) represent the level of trust distributed to each artwork.
Transactions and circulation of art have been under myriad regulation for more than five centuries. On the operational level, however, the opaqueness of the transaction, the ambiguity of authenticity, the highly concentrated power of pricing and the exclusive collector’s circle along with a lack of access to prestigious artwork have together formed a formidable barrier that kept most art investors from the market. FRESCO, a revolutionary art trust evaluation and information sharing network, creates a decentralized art ecosystem. Unlike the traditional primary and secondary art market, all artworks in the FRESCO network are systematically archived on the blockchain. This offers an assurance of anonymity, transparency, and liquidity, while potentially solving issues such as appraisal, authentication, and information asymmetry.
FRESCO, the world’s first blockchain-based ecosystem serving art collectors, practitioners, and related organizations, connects the realms of technology, finance, and art market and create a decentralized platform for the trade, investment, research, archival, and management of artworks.
The FRESCO Operations and Advisory Teams include leading figures in the global art scene, the blockchain industry, and financial realm. Our engineering team has extensive experience in developing blockchain projects. The FRESCO team will release our testing network, FRESCO Alpha Net Version One (FANVO), among the world’s mega-galleries, museums, and private collectors within nine months. Collaborations at this scope will enrich the FRESCO database and facilitate the art trust tokenization.
Whitepaper: http://fresco.work/whitepaper/
Explainer Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TumCob7-g5I&t=1s
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