Benjamin Childress is a Utah-based artist living and working in Salt Lake City. Specializing in oil painting, he creates work that blurs the line between representation and abstraction, exploring themes of identity, human connection, anxiety, memory, and place. Through layering, blending, bold brushwork, and shifting light—with an emphasis on form and color—his paintings are rooted in personal experience and shaped by influences like expressionism and psychedelic art. His work is in private collections nationally and has been shown in the Pacific Northwest and Utah.