BEN K. VOSS | Book of Sand | MELANIE’S OFFICE

June 14 - September 18, 2026

VIEW EXHIBITION

The other day I’m exiting the subway onto the platform with lots of people coming and going in a kind of rush hour commotion, although it’s around three o’clock in the afternoon. I join a stream of people moving towards the stairs up ahead. Down below at an angle I notice something on the ground in between the criss-crosses of legs, arms and backpacks. It’s a crisp little paper resting on the floor appearing to be a fortune from a cookie with light blue words, not red, which confuses me and intrigues me to see what it says because maybe its not a fortune and something else. But you see I'm in the stream, moving right along with no time to stop just nearly capturing the message before I am right up the stairs onto the street between earth and sky.

Ben K. Voss (b. 1980, Sinking Spring) utilizes painting as a site to articulate duration, the void, and (un)knowingness. Selected solo and two-person exhibitions include City, Long Play Contemporary, Santa Monica (2025); Springs, Sperling (Office), Munich (2024); Ripple, Rumpelstiltskin, New York (2024); Meeting, Weatherproof, Chicago (2023). Selected group exhibitions include Cessation, Benny’s Video, New York (2025); On Blindness, Nara Roesler, New York (2025); Small Paintings and Sculptures, 57W57 Arts, New York (2025); Unreal, Tourist, White River Junction (2021); Behind the Times, Chapter 5, Alyssa Davis Gallery, Online, (2020); Two to Tango Two, Sperling, Munich (2019). Publications include Imprints (2020) and IMPRINTS II (2025) with artist Midge Wattles and Chateau International, London; Springs with Mark Pezinger Books, Vienna, New American Paintings, NE Edition, 140 (2019); ArtMaze, Summer Edition 13 (2019). In 2026, he earned a MFA from Hunter College in NYC and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. 

A special thanks to Celeste Fichter for collaborating on Two Dragons.

WAITING ROOM

BEN K. VOSS

September 6 - October 12, 2018 

VIEW EXHIBITION

Ben K. Voss will present 10 acrylic paintings all completed in 2018. These small-scale works pack an unexpectedly powerful punch, where their neatly diminutive size pulls the viewer in for close inspection and once engaged, some delightful little worlds begin to open up. Voss’s imagery and deft brushstrokes result in works that skillfully embody a dual hand-crafted/graphic design quality. Soft, repetitive patterns climb across each canvas forming subtle glitches and abstract terrains.

Ben K. Voss was born in 1980 in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania. Voss’s work has been included in group exhibitions at the Aspen Art Museum, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Interstate Projects, the Spring Break Art Show and Andrew Edlin's Underground Space. The artist currently lives and works in New York.