Ben Boothby

Ben Boothby, now resides in Portland Maine, happy to be home after 20 years of living out-of-state. That time away concluded with 9 years in Bushwick, Brooklyn. His paintings have been exhibited in NYC, nationally, and in Europe. He received his BA in Studio Art from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, in 1997. He earned his MFA from The Academy of Art University, San Francisco, in 2011. In the gap between degree programs he lived in DC, Iceland, and Oakland. From 2012 to 2019 he taught abstract painting for the Academy's online graduate fine art department. Now Ben is turning his attention to full time art production in his studio at Running With Scissors, in Portland.

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My paintings are built entirely from memories of architectural moments. They are mnemonic structures; holding a multitude of conflicting emotions from that place. Memory is a construction: layers of spatial ambiguities and shifting degrees of focus, scattered with representational details.
I strive for this visualization of how memory exists, becau...

BA Wesleyan University, Connecticut 1997
MFA Academy of Art University, San Francisco 2011

Recent Solo Shows:
2015 Mnemonic Tectonics, Brooklyn Oenology, Brooklyn, NY (December 10th - January 18th)
2015 Ephemeral Formation, Midtown Arts Common, New York, NY
2011 Mnemonic Reverie, 625 Sutter Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Recent Group Shows:
2015 25th Annual Holiday Show, Abend Gallery, Denver, CO
2015 Miniatures & More, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2015 Seeking Space, Be Electric Studios, Bushwick, NYC
2015 National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Boston, MA
2015 NordArt, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf, Germany
2014 Reality Distort, Jeffery Leder Gallery, LIC, NYC
2014 Unstructured, Yes! Gallery, Greenpoint, NYC
2014 Seeking Space, The Active Space, Bushwick, NYC
2014 Without Boundary, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
2014 International Painting III, Jeffery Leder Gallery, LIC, NYC
2014 Painting Invitational, Clemens Gallery, Paducah School of Art and Design, Paducah KY
2013 Seeking Space, 3rd Ward, Bushwick, NYC
2012 Balance, Jeffery Leder Gallery, LIC, NYC
2012 Small Works NYC, Jeffery Leder Gallery, LIC, NYC
2012 Anywhere But Here, Gallery Bar, LES, NYC