Trudy Benson is an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1985. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Ceysson & B茅n茅ti猫re, Wandhaff have featured Trudy Benson's work in the past.Trudy Benson's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 125 USD to 32,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2014 the record price for this artist at auction is 32,500 USD for Red Giant, sold at Phillips New York in 2014. Trudy Benson has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Two Coats of Paint in August 2025.
It has been a really busy summer in the Hudson Valley, and as we move into August the momentum continues with dozens of noteworthy exhibitions throughout the region.
From barn-side group shows to forest installations and long-awaited museum retrospectives, these ten shows make the journey north a must for city-dwellers chasing fresh air and sharper cultural programming.
I鈥檝e always thought of non-objective art as an especially challenging type of abstraction that doesn鈥檛 rely on a visual relationship to the world for meaning.
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..Benson utilizes the masking of an under painting, or censuring like in the venus pudica , to draw more attention and inquiry to what is hidden beneath the newest layer of paint...
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..Benson examines surfaces, depths, literalism, and lyricism, as her works oscillate between high formal contrasts image and object, figure and ground, thickness and thinness...
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