Benjamin King

Alkaline, 2024

Acrylic on canvas

60h x 72w in
152.40h x 182.88w cm

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Benjamin King

Lake George, 2024

Acrylic on paper

12h x 9w in
30.48h x 22.86w cm

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Benjamin King

Break Neck, 2024

Acrylic on paper

12h x 9w in
30.48h x 22.86w cm

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Benjamin King

Nocturne, 2024

Acrylic on canvas

11h x 14w in
27.94h x 35.56w cm

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Benjamin King

Naive Sun, 2024

Acrylic on canvas

48h x 36w in
121.92h x 91.44w cm

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Benjamin King

Dial In, 2022

Acrylic on canvas

60h x 48w in
152.40h x 121.92w cm

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Benjamin King

Daymakers, 2024

Acrylic on canvas

24h x 18w in
60.96h x 45.72w cm

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Benjamin King

What Stood Among the Ruins, 2022

Acrylic on canvas

60h x 40w in
152.40h x 101.60w cm

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Benjamin King

Tree Time, 2024

Acrylic on canvas

20h x 16w in
50.80h x 40.64w cm

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Benjamin King

Remote Allies, 2022

Acrylic on canvas

29h x 24w in
73.66h x 60.96w cm

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Benjamin King

Data Streams, 2021

Acrylic on canvas

30h x 24w in
76.20h x 60.96w cm

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Benjamin King

Sunny Moon, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

40h x 30w in
101.60h x 76.20w cm

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Benjamin King

After Burn, 2024

Acrylic on paper

18h x 24w in
45.72h x 60.96w cm

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Benjamin King

Hardscrabble, 2024

Acrylic on canvas

72h x 72w in
182.88h x 182.88w cm

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BENJAMIN KING

Controlled Burn

March 8 – April 5, 2025

For Immediate Release: Freight+Volume is pleased to announce Benjamin King Controlled Burn. The exhibition will run from March 8th - April 10, 2025. This is King’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. 

Benjamin King's landscapes navigate the liminal terrain between the familiar and the uncanny. In Controlled Burn, King focuses his gaze on the elemental nature of the forest, offering a perspective that transcends our often limited, anthropocentric understanding of time and place. His waterways lure the viewer into unpeopled landscapes that vibrate with life. 

King's process is one of layering and accumulation. He builds his surfaces with a rich impasto, incorporating sand and thick paint to evoke the sedimentary history of fertile marshes. King's impressionist use of dotted leaves capture the ephemeral vitality of trees bathed in sunlight. He ignites his foliage with fiery golds and reds, and then evokes the cool geometry of rocks and lunar twilight —sometimes within the same canvas. 

Controlled Burn also reveals King's unique approach to the canvas as a site of continual revision. He often paints over older works, allowing previous images to subtly inform and resonate within the new. This act of erasure and creation, of destruction and renewal, is reflected in the regenerative nature of controlled burns—intentional fires that clear away the old to make way for the new. King’s paintings invite contemplation of the elemental forces that shape and reshape our world.