BEN STEELE 16 Sided Crystal December 9, 2011 - January 28, 2012 OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, December 9, 7-10pm Ben Steele's paintings are both transcendental and technological. Sixteen artworks are constructed and refer to the natural physical world, yet also feel digitally produced. In reality, however, there is no digital component to the work. Aiming to simulate a digital vocabulary through physical form, the paintings are based on straight photographs taken, through crystals and prisms, of actual physical constructions.