Biography
Trudy Benson is a contemporary American painter best known for her large-scale abstract compositions utilizing hyperbolized gestures such as extreme impasto, hyper-saturation, and alliterated marks. Her resulting compositions feature playful visual references to 1980s graphic design and early computing through bold, cartoonish imagery. “For me, painting has everything to do with the nature of paint at the surface as a viscose, sculptural material, color as a mutable component, and a contemporary painting vocabulary as inclusive of digital imaging techniques as well as historical painting tropes," she has explained. Born in 1985 in Richmond, VA, Benson received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University before earning her MFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Benson has enjoyed widespread recognition for her large-scale paintings, showing her work in solo exhibitions at Freight + Volume Gallery, Horton Gallery, Lisa Cooley, and Half Gallery. The artist continues to live and work in New York, NY.
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Trudy Benson is a contemporary American painter best known for her large-scale abstract compositions utilizing hyperbolized gestures such as extreme impasto, hyper-saturation, and alliterated marks. Her resulting compositions feature playful visual references to 1980s graphic design and early computing through bold, cartoonish imagery. “For me, painting has everything to do with the nature of paint at the surface as a viscose, sculptural material, color as a mutable component, and a contemporary painting vocabulary as inclusive of digital imaging techniques as well as historical painting tropes," she has explained. Born in 1985 in Richmond, VA, Benson received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University before earning her MFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Benson has enjoyed widespread recognition for her large-scale paintings, showing her work in solo exhibitions at Freight + Volume Gallery, Horton Gallery, Lisa Cooley, and Half Gallery. The artist continues to live and work in New York, NY.
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