Ben Rheault: Sympathetic Resonances | On View in the Main Gallery from 16 January - 1 March 2026

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          6:30 to 8 p.m. Friday 16 January 2026
Public Opening
          1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday 18 January 2026
          Artist talk at 2 p.m.

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        Ben Rheault is an artist who currently lives and works in his studio in Fargo, North Dakota.  He earned a BFA in painting from Minnesota State University Moorhead.  Teaching a semester of Contemporary Drawing at MSUM in the fall of 2024 rekindled in Ben a love for small, intimate, and spontaneous work, which became the main conceptual drive for Sympathetic Resonances.  

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SYMPATHETIC RESONANCES 
MUSIC:  Lithics, SWANS, I Saw the TV Glow (Soundtrack), Sturgill Simpson, Unwound, Joy Division, Tortoise, Low, Sadurn, the Tubs, the Cure, New Order, the Flamin’ Groovies, the Velvet Underground, the Mekons, Bonnie “Prince” Billie, Neu!, William Tyler, Stereolab, Modest Mouse, Syd Barrett, Built to Spill, Lou Reed, Phosphorescent, Suicide, Neil Diamond, KARP, Cocteau Twins, the Fall, Pavement, Television, the Replacements, the Apples in Stereo, the Beatles, Waylon Jennings, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Can, Living Hour, SOTOS, STILL, Disappear Forever, John Cale, the Sugarcubes, Big Star, Guided by Voices, the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Pixies, Blur, Oasis, Archie Shepp, Bob Dylan, REM, Roger Miller, Kleenex/Lilliput, Big Business, Warren Zevon, Harry Nilsson, the Kinks, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Dan Reeder, Trainspotting (Soundtrack), Pulp, Screamers, the Clean, the Stooges…

LITERATURE:  the Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey, A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley, the Plague by Albert Camus, the Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, 1491:  New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, A Peoples’ History of the United States by Howard Zinn, the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, the Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright, Ask the Dust by John Fante, Stayin’ Alive:  the 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class by Jefferson Cowie, Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, Psychonauts:  Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind by Mike Joy, A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, the Wall by Marlen Haushofer, Giants of the Earth/Peder Victorious/Their Father’s God by O.E. Rölvaag, Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, the Deluge by Stephen Markley, Limitarianism:  the Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns, The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley, Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr., The Field of Blood:  Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman, After Eden:  a Short History of the World by John Charles Chasteen, Nexus:  A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, I Will Bear Witness:  A Diary of the Nazi Years 1942-1945 by Victor Klemperer, the Titan by Theodore Dreiser, Herzog by Saul Bellow, God Human Animal Machine by Meghan, O’Gieblyn, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Moby Dick by Herman Melville…
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FILM:  Trainspotting,  24 Hour Party People,  La Strada, Mr. Mom, Spinal Tap, Julien Donkey Boy, Ken Burns Documentaries (any/all), the Great Outdoors, Doom Generation, I Saw the TV Glow, Scanners, Kids, David Lynch Films (any/all), the City of Lost Children, M, Rushmore, Godland, the Witch, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Edward Scissorhands, Crumb, The Art Life, American Splendor, the Seventh Seal, I Love You Man, Better Off Dead, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, the Labyrinth, the Dark Crystal, the Secret of NIHM, the Empire Strikes Back, High Fidelity, No Country for Old Men, Triangle of Sadness, Barbie, Mr. Jealousy, Taxi Driver, Werner Herzog Films (any/all), the Royal Tennenbaums…