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Visual artist Benjamin Kress on when your freelance gigs and creative vocation are almost the same – The Creative Independent

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Try typing something like "creative blocks", "spiral", "world", "green" or "blue" and our snail will find what you're looking for. Benjamin Kress lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He has had solo exhibitions at Callicoon Fine Arts (New York, NY), Derek Eller Gallery project room (New York, NY), helper (Brooklyn, New York), and Galeria André Viana (Porto, Portugal), and has participated in numerous group exhibitions and collaborations. Here, Kress discusses what it means to be an artist who freelances by making art for other people, the benefits of having a studio outside of your home, and when your trail of personal and professional connections ends up leading to a career. Editor’s note: This interview is part of a series on making a living. A lot of creative people have day jobs that have nothing at to do with their creative life, but you mostly do freelance work that’s art-related, right? Yeah, the freelance I do is art-based. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself that, I guess,

On when your freelance gigs and creative vocation are almost the same Prelude Benjamin Kress Painter, Sculptor Benjamin Kress lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He has had solo exhibitions at Callicoon Fine Arts (New York, NY), Derek Eller Gallery project room (New York, NY), helper (Brooklyn, New York), and Galeria André Viana (Porto, Portugal), and has participated in numerous group exhibitions and collaborations. Here, Kress discusses what it means to be an artist who freelances by making art for other people, the benefits of having a studio outside of your home, and when your trail of person

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