I love when I walk into one of our schools and see dazzling art on our walls. It makes me feel like we are doing our job by sharing serious work from world class artists in communities that don’t get to engage with contemporary art too often.

Benjamin Klein has an exhibition that is now open at our school in Montclair, NJ and it is his second show with us. As you can tell from the image, Ben’s work is vibrant, colorful and ambitious in the way it challenges our senses. I often think of rich color in paintings as the equivalent to spice in food, and this work amounts to a spicy broth.

Benjamin Klein was born in Chicago and grew up in Montreal, Quebec. His paintings depict a rich but ambiguous landscape of dreamlike scenery and characters. Hallucinatory colors, strange environments, and unexplained scale shifts inhabit the space as much as do the figures themselves, who interact and confront one another in quietly poetic, charged psychodramas.

Visit any one of our locations right now and you will get a taste of “the art of today”.  I really feel that is an important thing to support the artist community, so if you have any interest in owning a painting, connect with our team and I’m sure they can walk you through the process.