Benny Fountain
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Associate Professor of Art
Drawing & 2D Design
Benny Fountain was born in Moscow, Idaho, at the center of a rich agricultural region known as the Palouse. Fountain traces his love for looking to the stunning light and color of the farmlands he witnessed growing up. At age 19, while travelling throughout Europe, Fountain encountered the artworks of Paris, London, and Italy. Stunned, he returned home to become a painter. Educated in Portland, Philadelphia, and Rome, Fountain joined the Faculty at Baylor in 2013. His paintings and teaching concentrate on how abstraction drives meaning in representational art. Fountain is represented by the Froelick Gallery in Portland, OR.
MFA, Temple University
BFA, Pacific Northwest College of Art
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