UrbaN Legends
Jeffrey Milstein
Exhibition with Robert Klein Gallery
Exhibition
October 22, 2026
RKG x SEA-DAR The Project Space
580 Harrison Avenue, 4th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts
Blazing Editions produced a 55.5 × 74-inch UV-printed Dibond with tonal varnish for Jeffrey Milstein, whose aerial photography anchors Urban Legends: A Global Perspective at RKG x SEA-DAR The Project Space in Boston.
Presented by Robert Klein Gallery and Sea-Dar Construction, the exhibition explores patterns, architecture, and the transformation of cities worldwide. Milstein’s photographs reveal intricate relationships among streets, buildings, waterways, and human activity, alongside works by Edward Burtynsky, Michael Wolf, Laura McPhee, and Yang Yongliang.
The exhibition runs October 22, 2026, through February 2027 at 580 Harrison Avenue, 4th Floor, in Boston’s SoWa Arts District.
About
Woodstock, NY-based Jeffrey Milstein was born in the Bronx in 1944. He received a degree in architecture from UC Berkley in 1968, and practiced as an architect before turning to photography in 2000. Milstein earned his pilot's license at 17, and his passion for flight led to his well-known typology of aircraft photographed from below while landing. The work was presented in a solo show at the Ulrich Museum of Art in 2008, as well as in a year-long solo show at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in 2012. In 2016, it was on display at the Brandts Museum in Odense, Denmark.
In recent years, Milstein has reversed the camera's direction, creating award-winning, unique aerial images of man-made landscapes that are iconic and emblematic of the modern world. These photographs have been recently shown in solo shows at Kopeikin Gallery, Bau-Xi Gallery, and Benrubi Gallery. The National History Museum of Los Angeles County opened a permanent installation in 2017, which included a large-scale reproduction of Milstein’s aerial photograph of Beverly Hills. His aerial photograph of Newark Airport is the cover image of the catalog for the traveling FEP exhibition “Civilization, The Way We Live Now”.
Milstein’s photographs have been exhibited and collected throughout the United States and Europe and are represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles, Benrubi Gallery in NYC, Robert Klein Gallery in Boston, Bau-Xi Gallery in Canada, and ARTITLEDcontemporary in Europe. His photographs have been published in The New York Times, LA Times, The Guardian, Esquire, Fortune, Time, Harper’s, GQ, European Photography, American Photo, Eyemazing, Graphis, Photomagazin, Die Zeit, Liberation, Wired, PDN, Esquire, Condé Nast Traveler, and featured on the CBS evening news with Scott Pelley. Abrams published Milstein’s aircraft work as a monograph in 2007, Monacelli published his extensive body of work from Cuba in 2010, and Thames and Hudson published LA NY, a collection of aerial photographs of LA and NY in 2017. Museums, including LACMA, the Smithsonian Museum, the George Eastman House, the Portland Museum of Art, and the Akron Art Museum, have collected his work.
TONAL VARNISH
A new dimension in fine art printing
Jeffrey’s largest piece, “Paris Looking Northwest,” 55.5×74,” was produced UV-printed on Dibond with a tonal varnish. Tonal Varnish adds depth and dimension to your artwork, a custom finish for our UV-printed Dibond pieces.
Unlike an even coat of varnish across the entire print, Tonal Varnish follows the image itself. Heavier ink areas receive more varnish, while lighter areas receive less. The result is a nuanced finish that enhances the image’s tonal relationships and adds another layer of visual interest.
We tailor the varnish to each artwork, carefully adjusting its build from light to dark. This can range from no varnish in white areas to full varnish in the deepest blacks, with finely controlled transitions in between.
Every image is different. We fine-tune the application to complement its particular tones, contrast, and detail—creating a finish that feels integrated with the artwork.
