Ben Hamburger
Press Release
(New Orleans, LA) FERRARA SHOWMAN GALLERY is excited to announce the Autumn 2026 exhibition in its seasonal, online exclusive series. Psychogeography marks the first gallery solo exhibition of New Orleans artist and educator Ben Hamburger. Taking place exactly one year following his gallery debut in the 29th Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, the exhibition runs concurrent with the 30th annual event which first introduced his work to the gallery's audience. Psychogeography serves as a deeper look into the artist's painting practice and unveils twenty-seven paintings created this year. The exhibition will be on view from 1 October through 31 December - fully online with rotating, selected paintings physically installed in the gallery throughout the run of the show.
the artist says of this new series of paintings . . .
Psychogeography refers to the ways our environments shape our emotions, perceptions, and experiences. During meandering jogs and outdoor painting sessions, I look for combinations of color, shape, and light that feel exciting, expansive, or charged with energy. These encounters become starting points for paintings developed through memory, observation, distortion, and imagination. Back in the studio, I often combine multiple vantage points and moments in time, allowing the paintings to shift between recognizable spaces and more abstract passages. Layered marks and varied applications of paint accumulate to create a sense of movement, texture, and time. These unstable landscapes explore how wonder can be found in the banal. Rather than depicting a specific place, the works consider how physical environments are filtered through subjective experience, becoming intertwined with memory, emotion, and imagination.
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Ben Hamburger is a painter and art educator based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Hamburger holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts from Eckerd College and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Community Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art. His work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions around the country at locations including the Maryhill Museum of Art, The San Bernardino County Museum, the Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, and the New Orleans Academy of Fine Art. Hamburger has led workshops and taught in diverse settings including public schools, universities, art centers, museums, correctional facilities, and nonprofit organizations around the United States as well as in Bolivia, Thailand, and India. Hamburger currently serves as an Adjunct Instructor at Western Carolina University’s School of Art and Design, teaches painting at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Art, and leads workshops nationwide. He can often be found painting throughout New Orleans or working from his studio at Mid-City Artist Studios.
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