Video (3min 24sec): Benjamin McPherson, Painter. A New Mexican by birth, Benjamin McPherson’s oil paintings celebrate faith.
His classical realist oil paintings focus on religion, including scenes from the life of Jesus Christ. “Now I’m trying to apply realism to contemporary, out-of-the-box art.”
To do so, he brings together many aspects of faith. His work will include an animation of faith, changing the features of an ordinary man to a Buddhist Monk, a priest, a Muslim, a Hassidic Jew and finally a man adorned by the symbols of those many religions. McPherson’s work focuses on the presence of a strong spiritual belief and it’s effect on individuals.
McPherson's painting "And It Was Night," depicts Jesus Christ and his closest followers in a scene similar to Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting "The Last Supper." It was reproduced for the cover of the August issue of the Ensign, a monthly magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
