Expansion Oil on canvas 36" H x 40" W Expansion by Ben Schwab feels lush, luminous, and rhythmically alive, capturing a landscape through energetic, layered brushwork rather than fixed detail. Bold, gestural strokes scatter across the surface in a mosaic of color, sunlit yellows and greens, cool blues, soft lavenders, and warm earth tones, creating the sensation of light flickering across water, foliage, and ground. The composition suggests a balance between reflection and movement, with horizontal bands anchoring the scene while the surrounding marks pulse and shimmer. Overall, the painting has an immersive, joyful quality, evoking the experience of standing within a vibrant natural setting where color, light, and motion blend into a single, expressive moment. Read More
Road Through The Woods (After Cezanne) Oil on canvas 40" H x 50" W Ben Schwab has long been fascinated with the dynamics of cities, which allow him to simultaneously observe decay and vitality, expansion and contraction, and history and impermanence. He uses layering and mark-making to explore these themes, and by combining and manipulating images, he captures multiple views and introduces a sense of abstraction. The result is a place that is both familiar and unfamiliar, blurring the lines between “here” and “there” and creating an experience that is unique for each viewer. Read More
Reverie Oil on canvas 42" H x 60" W Reverie by Ben Schwab feels expansive, lyrical, and richly atmospheric, capturing a landscape in a state of gentle motion. Loose, layered brushstrokes sweep across the surface in warm golds, soft greens, and cool blues, suggesting trees and foliage reflected in flowing water. The forms are intentionally blurred and interwoven, creating a dreamlike sense of depth where land, sky, and reflection seem to merge. Light appears to shimmer across the scene, giving the painting a tranquil yet vibrant energy. Overall, the work evokes a feeling of quiet reverie and immersion in nature, where color and movement take precedence over precise detail. Read More
Passages Oil on canvas 60" H x 60" W Passages by Ben Schwab presents a crisp, contemporary cityscape with a striking sense of clarity and momentum. The architecture is rendered in clean, geometric blocks of color, cool greens, blues, and whites punctuated by warm oranges and reds, giving the scene a sleek, almost architectural precision. Strong linear perspective pulls the eye down the corridor of buildings and streets, creating a feeling of depth, movement, and urban flow. Despite the complexity of the forms, the palette and light keep the painting feeling open and airy, evoking a modern city experienced from above, where structure, energy, and optimism coexist. Read More
Obscurity Oil on canvas 48" H x 48" W Obscurity by Ben Schwab presents a vibrant, stylized cityscape that feels both expansive and energetic. The buildings are rendered in crisp, flattened planes of color, with bold blues, warm creams, soft yellows, and sharp accents of red and green creating a rhythmic, almost graphic quality. The perspective plunges the viewer into the urban scene, giving a sense of height, movement, and modern scale, while the sky opens wide in luminous blue, lending the composition a feeling of clarity and optimism. Overall, the painting feels dynamic and contemporary, celebrating the architecture and pulse of the city through a balance of structure, light, and expressive color. Read More