Trudy Benson

Mother is pleased to present zzzzzzzzzzzzz, a two-person exhibition featuring recent works by Trudy Benson and Russell Tyler. The show will be Benson’s and Tyler’s first time exhibiting with Mother. zzzzzzzzzzzzz runs from May 13 through June 19, 2022. Mother | Beacon is located on the ground floor at 1154 North Avenue, Beacon, NY.

As a married couple, the technicolor, soft geometric paintings of Trudy Benson and Russell Tyler contain a reflexive, though unassuming, harmony within their lines (or lack thereof). The show’s title, zzzzzzzzzzzzz, or thirteen lowercase “z”’s, was adopted to describe the buzzing, frenetic energy exuded from Benson’s painting, as well as fuzzy, blurred, vibrating color fields in Tyler’s work. The title itself is also onomatopoeic, referring to the way that punchy colors contrast in vibrations with one another, allowing the eye to foxtrot from one corner of a painting to another.

In Benson's paintings, she employs dense materiality, wedged between colorful checkerboard and feverish, harshly angled lines. From afar, the works first present with a factor of shock-and- awe. But, as viewers are drawn in, process and material become maximally legible. These works emphasize physicality, surface, and perhaps most importantly, physical presence. Benson’s chosen colors, and their unexpected pairings, are replete with strong intention and a yearning for connection. This is a stark contrast from her earlier work, which was heavily influenced by virtuality and digital experiences. Her works in zzzzzzzzzzzzz disallow a through-screen connection—they demand the naked human eye upon them to trace line, to supersede the clandestinity of the artist’s studio, and to invoke sensory quality. They forgo the buzzing of a cellphone in a pocket for that of rapid eye movement and the firing of neurons in the wake of discovery. In a world where almost anything can be experienced virtually, a painting can now be decidedly phenomenological, and Benson’s work achieves as much.

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Trudy Benson

)(, 2022

Acrylic and oil on canvas

61 x 77 in (154.9 x 195.6 cm)