Trudy Benson
“Cut Combine” 2018
Size: 29 x 32 inches
Medium: Spit Bite Aquatint with hand painted collage by the Artist on Rives BFK
Edition of 30 and 5 Artist’s Proof
2018 invited Artist: Trudy Benson, MFA ’10
Trudy received her MFA from the in , NY and a BFA from . Trudy Benson is known for her large scale abstract paintings that utilize large swaths and globs of paint. Her style was influenced by early computer painting programs, such as and . In December 2012, Scott Indrisek wrote for Modern Painters that, “This young Pratt-educated painter is moving away from her previous cartoonishly figurative efforts and toward a maximalist abstraction. The effect is a bit like a 1980s geometry textbook spazzing out and exploding on the wall. Benson works within a deliciously caffeinated language of gestures and shapes-the smear, the dripping line, rainbows, grids, circles-to create compositions that pair smooth, glossy sections with paint applied so thickly it resembles Play-Doh.
