WPLN News Archive; The Big Picture at Cheekwood (Adrienne Outlaw) 6 16 03; News Archive 4/1/03-7/1/03

it during the shaking but with martin minutes tennessee floor plans you get a clear picture of her home is blue critics like an interior decorators fantasy for swinging torches and chandelier like a little railroad couldn't separate recruiting top the couches pillows when the velvet walls plush carpeting and cover the floor it is due to declare the complex and grannies cat and sits next to the animal pens in la mesa critter hangout grannies moonshine still and lie so bad compete with ground stone fountains tennis court and croquet lot for the inside and it's drawing shows with the television didn't the ball room mates quarters and the laundry like i've mentioned his business traveler so to his own room mansion all your actions on that house was the scene upon or pool area

which also jackie's car wash the kitchen area and the bureaucracy and the foreigner and the rest you had to concede it to go upstairs they only use the one bedroom they just dressed different for each character you create where you can for more you think that mansion would look like then selected fifteen pieces for the cheek would show what a gallery looks like a serious display of architectural drawings when viewers get close enough to read the blueprints and the captions underneath most folks laugh out loud the home of three kilos your cardio six twenty three e sixty eight street apartment three d new york new york there has been drawing and perfecting his version of tv homes for more than forty years he made his first sketches when he was eleven years old and is chattanooga home i loved the family's us on those shows and i want to be part of those families like the record lows and one of the reigning in china then i would see that record lows at the palms hotel's we always thought it would be great to be with them

and be living in that fantasy world a sitcom moving then it says it felt very isolated as a child and it shares fantasy live with anyone really taking notes during commercial breaks he wouldn't translate them into drawings until he was alone most a strong suspicion of the early ones were done before vcr and so you had to do for memory and they call a phone number oh my god you get the phone number in history it's phone numbers poplar nine won seven six nine and you write that down and keep in a folder window open to you have enough stuff to create for one drawing then it kept his obsession hidden from the world until i got to college and a sculpture class he asked as professor if he could make the leave it to beaver house out of balsa wood was great pretty much set me on the path that maybe this was something that i could share with the world after binney god is our degree from the university of tennessee chattanooga in nineteen seventy nine he moved to new york to be an artist he failed miserably and hit rock bottom fourteen years later after

settling into his current home in los angeles and gallery owner finally discovered his work he's about one of these drawings famous innocent you're so funny and andalusia mohawk and now he did he do just that he had a show for me they invested money into in a portfolio lithographs of these drawings an hour telling him i can't pay you back if they fail occupy you back in east that's arguable were taken his camel and now and that's how it happened the network is now a major public collections including the museum of modern art at the los angeles county museum of art a museum is recognized the value and bennett obsession with fantasy he still hasn't been able to quit his day job as a mailman because we do have the money made me sound a lot a lot of therapy because there is an issue they're euphoric drowned in a boating accident for example mr ludwig the allies were like leaders like the past for where i finally took the wrong and what he wore to the prom couple hour or so she brought mary ellen rogers and those

things are not real helpful in retreat rely on a job interview at all no one really cares about the marshes from albuquerque the average baby boomer they're a fun way to tap into the collective memory of television the big picture prints and drawings by marc bennetts is on display at the museum of art through july twenty seven for national public radio i'm adrian obese at it