John Belknap

Jan 22, 2025 | family.style | John Belknap |Teller Thomas |Emily Simon

James Bantone takes up the quintessential all-American medium, steel for his second solo U.S. exhibition, “Scrap,” following the Paris-based artist's show with the Swiss Institute last spring. Bantone transforms slabs of this industrial material, synonymous with strength, resilience, and mass production, into sleek artworks. The works aren’t humongous minimalist excretions or rhizomatic-cloud capitalism installations.