Ben

Sculptors shape space as much as material. Ben works from a studio within the Chesterfield Gallery, a Lower East Side address that has long hosted artists who prefer brick walls to blank canvases. The gallery itself sits at 109 Norfolk St New York, NY 10002, a stretch where older tenements give way to lofts and small exhibition spaces.

While the neighborhood still feels like a sketchbook—graffiti tags on roll-down gates, delivery bikes leaning against fire escapes—the work that emerges here tends toward the precise and permanent. (212) 388-0609 connects directly to the studio; calling ahead can save a trip if the current piece is mid-fabrication or out on loan. Sculpture, after all, moves at its own pace, often slower than the foot traffic outside.

Visitors who want to see the process rather than just the finished piece can pull up directions and time the walk for weekday afternoons, when the gallery’s front room is most likely to be open. The street number is visible from the curb, though the doorbell sometimes blends into the weathered frame.