Ben Young: I Think I'm Free

To follow up its three-month series of German artists, Victory Gallery heads northwest across the English Channel for London-based painter Ben Young’s I Think I’m Free. Interestingly, Young gives German titles to many of his paintings, including Dasein (German for “existence”) and Ohne Titel (“Without Title”). Using oil paint and spray paint, he counterposes the elegance of gestural abstraction with the grittiness of urban graffiti, often buffering his compositions within a framing device of gray or salmon color. Works that are more painterly and diffuse in imagery, such as Art Antichrist and Gain Inches, are more traditional in overall look and do not pack the contemporary punch of the text-based compositions. Through July 31.

 

Where: Victory Gallery
Address: 733 NW Everett St.
Website: www.victorygallery.com