Ben Aronson is known for his evocative depictions of the contemporary urban landscape. He masterfully translates the sensory experience of city life through the interplay of impressionistic atmosphere, vibrant color, and dynamic light. Aronson's signature style blends realism with abstraction, capturing the unique spirit of a place and compressing its essence into a single moment.

Ben Aronson's paintings are featured in the permanent collections of over fifty museums, including the De Young Museum, San Francisco; the National Academy Museum, New York; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio; Denver Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Orangerie in Gera, Germany.

Artist Spotlight


Jason Kowalski

Awarded 2024 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

Kowalski’s work is far more than mere visual documentation of a past era’s roadside architecture. Though he wasn’t born yet when most of what he paints was full of the hopes and dreams of an era - when the “no vacancy” signs of motels along Old Route 66 lit up and the Holbrook Inns of now empty towns were jammed at night - somehow Kowalski intuits in his paintings of what remains of these edifices of Americana, the soul of a vital time and the folk that lived in it. He evokes that very spirit in his light-filled and affectionate treatment of the tangible remnants of what otherwise is merely memory and story. 

About the Gallery


LewAllen Galleries

Est. 1976

Santa Fe, NM

LewAllen Galleries has been a pioneering force for contemporary and modern art for more than 47 years, maintaining a robust schedule of exciting exhibitions, publications, and educational programs.