
Oren and Bennet
2022
Rendered in a fusion of acrylic paint and archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Hemp 290 paper, Oren and Bennet presents two figures entwined in a moment of quiet intimacy, bathed in the lush, color-saturated palette for which Doron Langberg has become widely celebrated. The work carries the characteristic softness and emotional transparency of Langberg's practice, where bodies are treated not as subjects of spectacle but as sites of tenderness and vulnerability. The warm, layered marks dissolve form into feeling, drawing the viewer into a space that feels simultaneously private and universally human. Langberg, born in Israel and based in New York, has risen to considerable prominence through his unflinching commitment to portraying queer love and domesticity with both painterly rigor and emotional honesty. His work has entered major institutional collections and attracted sustained critical attention for the way it expands the legacy of figurative painting to include perspectives long underrepresented within the canon. Oren and Bennet belongs to this ongoing project of bearing witness to lives lived fully and affectionately, encoded in a visual language that is at once loose and precisely felt. Available through Craven Contemporary in an edition of 30, this signed work represents an accessible point of entry into Langberg's practice for collectors seeking works of genuine emotional depth and art historical relevance. The intimate scale of 60.6 by 48.3 centimetres makes it well suited to a considered domestic hang, where its warmth and psychological resonance can be experienced in close proximity, exactly the conditions under which Langberg's painterly sensibility communicates most powerfully.
- Medium
- Acrylic and archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Hemp 290 paper
- Sheet
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Craven Contemporary, Kent, CT
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Craven ContemporaryView on map
For Sale — $10000
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