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Tricia Buchanan-Benson

USA

Live and works in Los Angeles

Tel: 818-262-9020

Tricia@tbbenson.com

TriciaBuchananBenson.com

Education

BA Film, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

Exhibitions

2024

Torrance Art Museum MAS Attack

Torrance Art Museum- NOMAD III

bG Gallery- Spectrum Gestalt

Bakersfield Museum of Art- Artmix Group Show

Collections

Quinn Family Collection, Los Angeles, CA

Private Collection, Brentwood, CA

Private Collection, Los Angeles, CA

Bio

Tricia is a Los Angeles based artist. She has a BA from Loyola Marymount University in Film. She has taught animation and storyboarding at Loyola Marymount University.

Tricia’s entrance into the contemporary art world is not a linear one. She has over fifteen years of experience in the entertainment industry as an animator on shows such as The Simpsons, King of the Hill and Futurama. She has also worked as an artist with clients such as Disney and Lucasfilm.

Artist’s Statement

My current developing body of work revolves around the elasticity of memory in contrast to the expectations of permanence and perfection in digital media. The assumption exists that digital media remains intact, in an unblemished state. But what happens if it does not?

At the height of the pandemic lockdown, I lost everything when my hard drive became corrupted. All of my photography, un-backed up projects, everything. I took my computer to a repair shop to see if anything could be salvaged.

What came back was a complete jumble of files. Each completely unlabeled with the exception of a JPEG file name consisting of numbers and letters. As I dug through everything I began to notice some of the images came back stitched together in a variety of ways. Sometimes through a similarity of subject or color, sometimes not. It was as if the computer in its revived state was attempting to apply its own sense of logic and organization as to how the images should be assembled together.

I am exploring the concept of retrieving memories through the haze of time and the digital realm and reinterpreting them through the very human means of paint, ink and raw canvas. A rebirth from digital loss and an exploration of the imperfection of memory through a human filter.