Clarice Benz analyzes the aesthetics of the internal human body and its functions, striving to bring the insides out. Focus leads to presenting them to an audience in non-traditional ways. Her works are influenced by themes of deconstruction and the exploration of societal norms. By taking on the roles of social commentator and experimenter, she pursues projects in the drawing, printmaking, digital medium and explores the facets of manipulation of ready made objects. With an interest in anatomy, she explores human interaction through the communicative vessel of the human body.

Clarice Benz received the Learning by Creating Grant from Willamette University in 2017 for her show, “but I want the gory details?”. She has also been an exhibiting artist at the Chandler Gallery in Boston for her piece Surprise and has been shown at the Elisabeth Jones Art Center in Portland, Oregon.

Currently, her installation, The Aesthetic Guide to Living, is on display at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Oregon. Clarice Benz was born in Portland and and raised in Canby, Oregon where she continues to be inspired by the inventors of oddity and the outsiders who have made it to the inside. Clarice recently graduated from Willamette University with a B.A. in Studio Art and a B.A. in Art History.