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Paul Behnke

@paulbehnke.bsky.social

Painter United States Based in Memphis, TN

645 Followers  |  241 Following  |  27 Posts  |  Joined: 19.11.2024  |  1.802

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Desirous of Lack. 2025, acrylic on canvas, 24x22 in

04.05.2025 22:07 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with 'improper ideology' President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”

apnews.com/article/trum...
In white patriarchy news:

28.03.2025 02:18 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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In the studio- Memphis, 2025

28.03.2025 03:51 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Modern Love
2025
acrylic on canvas
54 x 44 in.

18.03.2025 23:10 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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At the Earth’s Core
2025
acrylic on canvas
54x44 in.

15.03.2025 03:28 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy International Women’s Day to my AMAZING studio mates @lisamwilliamson.bsky.social Pam McDonnell & Jodi Brewer!
Y’all inspire me everyday and I love you

09.03.2025 20:08 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
“Amy Sillman: To Abstract” | Art21 "Extended Play"
YouTube video by Art21 “Amy Sillman: To Abstract” | Art21 "Extended Play"

Just rewatched this. I could listen to her all day.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxNI...

03.02.2025 14:24 — 👍 33    🔁 6    💬 5    📌 0

Find your people and do something good.

“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. Even when we don’t “win,” there is fun and fulfillment in the fact that we have been involved, with other good people, in something worthwhile. We need hope.” - Howard Zinn

06.02.2025 19:20 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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New work:
Thoth, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 54x44 in.

02.02.2025 05:20 — 👍 33    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Who Bore Witness to Native Life, Dies at 85 Her five-decade oeuvre is an intimate visual lexicon that bridges personal memories and joyful resilience.

Part of a generation of Indigenous artists who worked to “break the ‘buckskin ceiling,’” the late Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is known for merging humor and socio-political commentary with poetic depictions of Native American life.

29.01.2025 15:43 — 👍 163    🔁 20    💬 3    📌 7
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Studio view of a #wip 2024
Black Sky the Eye of God Receives Your Spirit from the Angel of Death
2024
20 x 16 in.

27.01.2025 16:10 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Terrific opening tonight at the UofM for Embustero: work based on the writing of Richard A. Lou.
-Featuring work by my amazing studio mates @lisamwilliamson.bsky.social
and Pam McDonnell and many other talented artists!

On view through February 28, 2025

25.01.2025 14:10 — 👍 22    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
I ONLY LIKE LICORICE JELLY BEANS

I ONLY LIKE LICORICE JELLY BEANS

I ONLY LIKE
LICORICE
JELLY BEANS

24.01.2025 01:38 — 👍 1119    🔁 81    💬 41    📌 25
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paintings from 2023- Astral Egypt and Neptune, approx. 65x65 in, acrylic on canvas.

24.01.2025 04:01 — 👍 33    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My favorite city in the world! Have fun!

21.01.2025 22:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Two Coats put together a list of other people you’d like to hang out with at an opening —> go.bsky.app/UfTv98D

20.01.2025 07:18 — 👍 150    🔁 21    💬 18    📌 2

Thanks!

21.01.2025 18:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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@lisamwilliamson.bsky.social doesn't respect my boundaries 😂

21.01.2025 18:01 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Taos, NM, 2002

21.01.2025 17:59 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Throwback to NYC w/ @debraramsay.bsky.social

21.01.2025 17:57 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lost Horizon series, 2024

21.01.2025 17:56 — 👍 27    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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NYC w/ Deb and Rebecca

21.01.2025 02:16 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gloria's Guardian, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 62x60 in.

21.01.2025 02:14 — 👍 20    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sharon Butler: As Close as Two Coats of Paint

Upcoming lecture in Dublin, Jan 29 —> rhagallery.ie/events/talks...

16.01.2025 16:10 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Ghost and Moonrise Near Taos Mountain
2025
acrylic and collage on canvas
14x11 in.

03.01.2025 21:44 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Double Crescent
2024
acrylic on canvas
54x44 in.

21.12.2024 05:52 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
HI, CUTE SNOOT --- TUNE ME IN --- I'M WAY OUT IN ORBIT IS THIS SOMETHING NEW ?

HI, CUTE SNOOT --- TUNE ME IN --- I'M WAY OUT IN ORBIT IS THIS SOMETHING NEW ?

HI, CUTE SNOOT--- TUNE ME IN --- I'M WAY OUT IN ORBIT

IS THIS SOMETHING NEW?

16.12.2024 15:43 — 👍 703    🔁 70    💬 18    📌 3

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