January 6 - 31

Ben Young’s sculpture fluidly blends glass, concrete, bronze, steel, and light to depict romantic and pensive imagery highlighting the fragility of our climate and its most precious resource – water. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, Young is an avid surfer and environmentalist, inspired by a lifetime on and around oceans, bays, and reefs, with an intimate understanding of the challenges our precious ecosystems face. Young’s thought-provoking sculpture shows great range, portraying the beauty and solitude of life on the ocean, haunting depths of the deep sea, and stunning and relaxing upside of island life. Water is many things to many people, which Young encapsulates brilliantly in his work, encompassing themes of sustainability throughout. Using concrete to create mountains, crevasses, sand bars, and cliffs, Young’s innovative use of materials is transportative. With hand-carved glass as his guiding medium, Young amplifies light and its relationship with water – our most sacred element – to create a glowing unity that people from around the world connect with on a personal level, whether they are beachside or in the desert. Ben Young’s exhibition Delicate Space is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the Western Hemisphere and will be a comprehensive showing of his most recent works, all made in 2023.

About Chesterfield Gallery

Since its inception in 2009, Chesterfield Gallery has built a vast and ever-changing collection of some of the most important Contemporary Glass of the 21st Century. The Gallery's collection acts as a living history of glass, offering genres and styles of blown glass from Murano to American flameworking. Maintaining diverse and extensive holdings, the Gallery includes such masters as Chris Ahalt, Joshua Bernbaum, David Colton, Kiva Ford, Sidney Hutter, Yoshinori Kondo, Daisuke Takeuchi, and Christopher Windsor on its roster of artists. More recent additions include Michael Cozza, Dan Friday and Hannah Gibson.

Chesterfield Gallery founder, Simon Abrahms, has been a leading pioneer among gallerists, curators and historians in the creation and development of the modern market for Contemporary Glass. Originally known as Chesterfield Glass Art, Chesterfield Gallery was the first gallery to regularly exhibit flameworking and pipemaking, which are now accepted as important elements in the high-end glass art landscape.