BEN ARONSON ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES
Ben Aronson Railyard Arts District | 1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | 505.988.3250 lewallengalleries.com | contact@lewallengalleries.com Arrivals & Departures August 26 - October 8 cover: Upper West Side, 2022, Oil on panel, 24" x 24" LewAllenGalleries
Ben Aronson | Arrivals & Departures
The artist’s expressive painterly style is characterized by fluid, yet restrained brushwork. “The main objective is not merely to capture physical likeness,” Aronson says, “but rather to aim for the most concentrated form of a powerful visual experience.” This gestural application of paint – while underpinned by remarkable precision – conveys his imagery through suggestions of implied movement and space. Aronson renders this sophisticated engagement through fleeting glimpses of movement and evanescent light, the cosmopolitan grid alternately sharpened or blurred into areas of streaking geometry and hardedged shadow.
Ben Aronson is recognized as a respected and evocative painter of the contemporary urban landscape. His art expressively translates everyday forms of metropolitan life – rooftops, skyscrapers, streets, stop signs, and sidewalks – into arrangements of geometry and motion, light and shadow. Through his masterful, loosely painted evocations of atmosphere, color, and light, Aronson’s remarkable paintings convey the sensory experience of a captured moment in the city.
“Aronson creates a continuum that begins at the turn of the 20th century and ends at the tip of his brush. But while he carries with him the accumulation of his study of the art of the past, it is ultimately Aronson’s own experience, his own hand which guides the brush.” – Joanna Fink
Ben Aronson studied at the School of Fine Arts at Boston University under Reed Kay, John Wilson, and James Weeks, who introduced Aronson to the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Aronson was also under the tutelage of Philip Guston and worked as his studio assistant. Ben Aronson was the recipient of the 2006 Childe Hassam Purchase Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Aronson’s paintings are included in the permanent collections of more than fifty museums, including the De Young Museum in San Francisco; National Academy Museum, New York; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Eli & Edythe Broad Museum, Michigan; Houston Museum of Fine Arts; New Mexico Museum of Art; and the Orangerie in Gera, Germany, among others.
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3 Midsummer Meditation, 2008 Mixed media on board, 40.13" x 30.1"
4 Hollywood Hills, 2022 Oil on panel, 24" x 24"
5 Upper West Side, 2022 Oil on panel, 24" x 24"
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7 Manhattan Skyline, 2022 Oil on panel, 7.13" x 36"
8 St. Patrick's in Snow, 2022 Oil on panel, 42" x 42"
9 Steam Vent, 5th Avenue, 2021 Oil on panel, 12" x 12"
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11 Isle of Wight, 2022 Oil on panel, 6.75" x 18"
12 Alchemist, 2010-22 Oil on panel, 30" x 22.5"
13 Under the El, Chicago, 2009 Oil on panel, 16.75" x 11.8"
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15 Lorraine's Pool, Tuscany, 2022 Oil on panel, 14" x 36"
16 Paris Morning, Left Bank, 2022 Oil on panel, 40.13" x 40"
17 Strada di Roma, 2022 Oil on panel, 24" x 24"
18 Twilight, Golden Gate, 2022 Oil on panel, 24" x 24"
19 Sun on Leavenworth, 2021 Oil on panel, 12" x 12"
20 Cut Fields, Eliot River, 2022 Oil on panel, 16" x 24"
21 Evening, Paris, 2022 Oil on panel, 16" x 24"
22 North Fork, Long Island, 2022 Oil on linen on panel, 51.75" x 76.5"
23 Path to the Beach, 2022 Oil on panel, 36" x 50"
24 Homestead, 2022 Oil on panel, 12" x 18.8"
25 Petit Pont, 2022 Oil on panel, 16" x 16"
26 Holsteins, 2022 Oil on panel, 24" x 72"
27 Portrait, 2022 Oil on panel, 8.5" x 11.8vv"
J. Sanford Saltus Gold Medal, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Eli and Edythe Broad Museum of Art, East Lansing, MI
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2006
Palm Springs Art Museum, CA
2008
1992 Ogden M. Pleissner Painting Award, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
Ben Aronson b. 1958, Boston, MA EDUCATION 1980-82 MFA in Painting, Boston University, MA 1976-80 BFA in Painting, Boston University, MA SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Arrivals & Departures, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM 2021 New York Minutes, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM 2019 Views From Above, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM 2017 Perspective and the Ephemeral, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM 2014 Light and Memory, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2013 Cityscapes, Asheville Art Museum, NC Cityscapes, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA 2011 Ann Norton Sculpture Museum, West Palm Beach, FL
The Figure in Context, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA Explorations, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA Recent Works, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA Recent Works, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY Painterly Visualizations, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA DFN Gallery, New York, NY Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA Sydney Bernard Fine Arts, Hollywood, CA MB Modern, New York, NY
Mazovian Museum, Plock, Poland Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2006 Childe Hassam Purchase Prize, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2004
1988 The Blanche E. Coleman Award for Painting
The St. Botolph Foundation Grant in Painting
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ME Orlando Museum of Art, FL
National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2005
2007
2000
AWARDS
2010
Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Grant
2005 Academician Appointment, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1986 The Blanche E. Coleman Award for Painting
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
1997
1998
DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2009
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
SELECTED PUBLIC & INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
2004 Benjamin Altman Landscape Prize, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, CO
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME Here and Now, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA Risk and Reward, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
The Urban Signature, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA Urban Currents, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1999
2002
San Diego Museum of Art, CA
National Museum of Fine Arts, Malta
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
2003
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