Through a process of decontextualization and tactile study, Tisha Benson explores the alternate capabilities of mass-produced materials and the power of objects to exclude, implicate or invite. Suspending preconceptions of function, she investigates latent abilities by bending, stretching, puncturing and bridging materials in response to formal cues. This process investigates mechanisms of agency and the relationships between forms consider processes of exchange and transformation within energetic systems. At the convergence of the familiar and foreign, the sculptural installations that emerge from this practice explore the preoccupations of nonhuman objects and the decentering effects of specificity.
Tisha Benson (b. 1992) is a visual artist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Primarily working in sculpture and installation, her practice explores the ways that specificity cultivates object-power. She received her MFA in 2024 from the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL and BFA in 2015 from San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. Her work has been exhibited at the USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL, Northern California Museum of Art, Chico, CA, and Bass and Reiner Gallery, San Francisco, CA. In 2024, she participated in the inaugural season of the Indeterminacy Incubator Residency hosted by New York Arts Program.
