Benjamin Styer is a New England acrylic painter. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts Boston where he studied art. He began painting daily in 2014, attempting to create visual solutions to the psychic puzzle of life’s inner world. 

My work is a study of thought, memory and feeling. My imagery presents an expanding mythological diagram of the conditions my mind endures—an ever-growing, oceanic collage of symbolic imprints in the window of the mind’s eye. Growing in all directions, changing every day. 

Emotional impulses of the past and present self take the form of storybook characters that wander freely in subliminal margins, causing ripples and creating subplots around a central force of mysterious, expanding power.

In my practice, I watch my mind move. I capture snapshots of its whereabouts and scan for meaning —the visual equivalent of flipping radio stations. 

I develop several images at once in various styles which I hang on my wall in random order, where they act together as mingling voices. I listen for the emerging dialogues between these disparate voices to generate new, hybrid imagery. Combining memory-voids, states of being and psychic realities, I aim to depict the totality of the mind as a working machine.