I am an abstract painter who experiments with organic forms and textures to capture a quality of space and time. Turning away from the purely representational, I am fascinated by the suggestive power of color, shape and texture and the process through which the real can be distilled to achieve an abstract form.

I paint much like a musician composes. The relationships of color, form and texture provide the structural elements in my work, not unlike the structure provided by key, time (measure), and notes (rhythm), in a Bach fugue. Each painting emerges as I work on it, taking on a life of its own.

My life and aesthetic are intimately connected to nature, which provides the emotional canvas from which I draw a large part of my inspiration. As I see it, my works resonate with elements drawn from the natural world, juxtaposed with my experiments in the immediacy of gestural strokes and viscose surfaces. The process is one of ongoing discovery about combinations of paint, media and materials as well as about my own responses to color and form.

My paintings suggest a sense of motion and suspension in space and time. Through associations and feelings, they engage the viewer in a conversation with the work that is at once intuitive and reflective – probing its deep sense of mystery, broadening the viewer’s own sense of reality and heightening his awareness of the infinite.

Painting is to me a means of expression without limits.

BIOGRAPHY

Education:

The Studio School, New York, New York
The New School, New York, New York
Cooper Studio, New York, New York
Art Center School, Los Angeles, California
Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois

GALLERIES and SHOWS:

2007 One-person show, Viridian Artists Inc., New York, NY
2007 One-person show, Island Gallery, Block Island, RI
2006 Private Studio Show, Block Island, RI
2006 Lavender Hill Gallery, Harbour Island, Bahamas
2005 Private Studio Show, Block Island, RI
2005 Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI
2004 Juried Show, River Tree Center for the Arts, Kennebunk, Maine
2003 One-person show, Paintings, Encore Gallery, Block Island, RI
2003 One-person show, Lavender Hill Gallery, Harbour Island, Bahamas
2002 One-person show, New Paintings, Encore Gallery, Block Island, RI
2001 Ben Wohlberg & Louise Kruger, New Work, Encore Gallery, Block Island, RI
2000 One-person show, Paintings, Encore Gallery, Block Island, RI
1999 One-person show, New Work, Encore Gallery, Block Island, RI
1998 One-person show, Encore Gallery, Block Island, RI
1996 Ben Wohlberg & Robert Kaupelis, Encore Gallery, Block Island, RI
1995 One-person show, Encore Gallery, Block Island, RI
1995 Princess Street Gallery, Bahamas
1994 One-person show, Agora Gallery, New York, New York
1994 Princess Street Gallery, Bahamas
1993 Group show, Agora Gallery, New York, New York
1993 Group show, Square One Gallery, Block Island, RI
1992 Group show, Bond Street Gallery, New York, New York
1992 One-person show – Square One Gallery, Block Island, RI
1991 Ben Wohlberg & Bill Padien, Paintings, Square One Gallery, Block Island, RI
1990 Group show, Silver Mine Gallery, Silver Mine, CT
1990 One-person show, Square One Gallery, Block Island, RI
1990 Warwick Museum, Warwick, Rhode Island
1989 Group show, Square One Gallery, Block Island, RI
1988 Group show, Silver Mine Gallery, Silver Mine, CT
1984 Group show, Somers Town Gallery, Somers, New York
1983 Group show, Somers Town Gallery, Somers, New York
1981 Juried Show, Westchester County, First Place Award
1980 Group show, Westchester County Art Exhibit, West Chester, New York

Private Studio Shows in the Bahamas and the United States.
Corporate and private collections throughout Europe and the United States.