Ben Georgia

Ben Georgia (b. 1941) has worked since the 1980s as a professional abstract artist with studios in Lake Worth, FL, West Orange, NJ & Eastport Me. He holds a BA & MA & studied painting at the Art Students’ League of NY, NYU & Columbia University with Theodore Stamos, the friend & colleague of Mark Rothko, two of the original New York Abstract Expressionists.

With his large, colorist abstract paintings, Ben has had 6 solo shows in Chelsea, NYC at Andre Zarre Gallery and been represented for 20 years by the Art Cabinet, Nantucket as well as many other galleries. He has had numerous exhibitions in his 40 year career, most proud of the one at his alma mater Rutgers University 2013 Fairleigh Dickinson University 2014, 2 shows at the PBCC 2014 & 2019, the Palm Beach Show, WPB 2020. & Art Hamptons, NY 2021.

Ben is an expressive colorist painter who believes like Hans Hoffman that painting means forming with color. The color development produces & works the form, often loosely based on the grid; there is a psychological meaning in the color & it is absolute in the development by which painting becomes poetry translating his life’s experiences of place. time & emotion through creative processes for a visceral response in the viewer. HIs paintings are in hundreds of private and public collections throughout the US, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Hong Kong and England.

Art is his life and with a strong independent spirit, Ben has an uncommon knowledge of the history of art which h ... view more »