Join us for an opening reception and celebration for Bennie Herron: Origin Stories at Mason Exhibitions Arlington.

Bennie Herron’s creative output in poetry, painting and social advocacy reflects on the often paradoxical conditions of being. His poetry presents a prismatic lens on his upbringing as a Black man, including close observations of the familial, interpersonal, and cultural forces that have shaped him.

Herron’s paintings channel and concentrate the currents of his poetry. Using a consistent formal vocabulary, he depicts emotionally charged busts of figures in dramatic contours, filled with dynamic and often fractured interiors.

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