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“It is my hope that in telling stories through my paintings and touching on some of the highs and lows and happy and sad moments in my life that others can find some human connection to their lives, even though our experiences might be very different.”

-Benjamin Cabral

Benjamin Cabral in his richly beaded paintings and sculptures employs the inherently unreliable nature of autobiography to examine the intersections between trauma and nostalgia, joy and sorrow, attraction and repulsion, the digital and the analogue. The works often include the artist’s likeness with an open-ended narrative …