Cityscapes by Ben Aronson

Perhaps best known today for depictions of men on Wall Street, Ben Aronson also creates eloquently expressive cityscapes. From the collection of the museum and the artist, this exhibition included a mix of architectural and pedestrian scenes that capture the energy of rapid urban life in a painterly manner. Aronson’s stylistic influences come from artists like Richard Diebenkorn, Willem de Kooning and Jack Levine. Through his depictions of “urban currents,” he contemplates the oppositional binaries of spatial ambiguity and markedly urban scenes, the interplay of light and dark and the movement of a fleeting glance or a fixed personal memory.