Benjamin Klein was born in Chicago and grew up in Montreal, Quebec. His paintings depict a rich but ambiguous landscape of dreamlike scenery and characters. Hallucinatory colors, strange environments, and unexplained scale shifts inhabit the space as much as do the figures themselves, who interact and confront one another in quietly poetic, charged psychodramas. Dread and longing, fear and ecstasy are present here, but also slapstick and silliness, a species of tragicomic drama in the painting. Klein lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.