Orchid City
Fuchsia orchids, the five-story sculptural facade draped on the side of the Anya apartments in downtown West Palm Beach.
2023
West Palm Beach, FL
PUBLIC ART · INSTALLATIONS · PAINTINGS
Creating large-scale public installations and paintings that transform spaces through calculated methodology and meticulous craftsmanship.
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Fuchsia orchids, the five-story sculptural facade draped on the side of the Anya apartments in downtown West Palm Beach.
2023
West Palm Beach, FL
An obscured form that invites a sense of engagement and collaboration for the soon to completed Avenir development
2026
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Privately funded commission for the recently unveiled Steven D. Bell Hall at The University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
2026
Chapel Hill, NC
pure pigment, galvanized steel
2024
Unknown
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Each project follows a documented methodology, from initial site analysis through final installation. This system ensures precision while allowing creative discovery within structured parameters.
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Every project begins with rigorous documentation and a close reading of the physical and cultural context of the site.
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Ideas are translated into drawings and technical specifications that define scale, rhythm, and fabrication requirements.
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Materials are selected based on durability, environment, maintenance, and aesthetic alignment with each site.
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Execution follows documented plans in studio and on-site, with continuous quality control and production coordination.
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Final installation integrates with site operations and architecture, ensuring the finished work functions in its permanent environment.
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Ben Leone is a West Palm Beach–based artist whose work examines the evolving relationship between the built environment and the natural world. Drawing from materials used on construction sites, Leone engages with the physical remnants of development as both medium and metaphor. His practice is rooted in an architectural sensibility — one that merges traditional fabrication methods with contemporary technologies to explore how structures, systems, and surfaces mediate our experience of landscape.
Leone's work operates at the intersection of form and ecology, creating dialogues between permanence and transience, function and decay. He challenges viewers to consider the implications of human mark-making — how we inscribe intention onto the planet, and what that reveals about broader systems of control, consumption, and adaptation.
Themes of globalization, climate change, and accelerated urbanization inform the conceptual framework of his work, yet Leone resists didacticism. Instead, he invites inquiry — foregrounding material presence and spatial tension as tools for reflection on the built world's entanglement with the organic. In doing so, he offers a nuanced vision of our contemporary condition: shaped by complexity, defined by interdependence.
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Completed Projects
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Cities
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Years Experience
City of West Palm BeachThe University of North Carolina at Chapel HillSisley ParisThe Frisbie GroupLandstar Development GroupSpina O'RourkeWoodfield Partners