Artist Biography

Bennett Ewing, AKA "Eyevan Tumbleweed” (b.1982), is best known for his facial sculptures made from found wood that is neither carved nor colored. His aggregately composed faces are assembled from a variety of woods found on weekly excursions into natural areas. Collecting bits of wood from mountains, deserts, swamps, riverbanks, forests, and beaches, the artist’s 3-D compositions unite materials from thousands of miles apart. Ewing’s works have featured weathered woods gathered along his travels from close to forty American states, Mexico, Canada, and Ireland. 

The wall-hanging relief faces in Ewing’s series are pieced together meticulously, using the natural colors, patterns, and directions of myriad wood fragments to create countenances described as powerful, whimsical, even haunting.

Bonded with glues and sturdily reinforced with two-part epoxy, pin nails, and dowels, the sylvan entities are painstakingly imbued by process of trial and error. Allowing the wood to guide him, Bennett Ewing's distinctive sculptures are created without any internal framework or premeditated vision.