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Gianna Commito earned a B.F.A. from The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. She paints with casein on marble dust or clay ground to reflect her interest in architecture, building materials, and by extension a continuing exploration of public versus private space and the development and collapse of the built environment. She has been invited to participate in numerous exhibitions across the country and is represented by Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York City, Abattoir in Cleveland, and Marrow Gallery in San Francisco. Her work has been recognized in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Art Papers, ArtForum.com, Wallpaper, and Art in America. Commito has received two Ohio Arts Council grants, a Pollack Krasner grant, the Cleveland Arts Prize for Emerging Artists, and the Wayne P. Lawson acquisition award from the Columbus Museum of Art. Her work was featured in the inaugural edition of the FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art in Cleveland, OH, and is placed in prominent collections such as the Akron Art Museum, Columbus Art Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, and the Progressive Art Collection. 

Trudy Benson (b. 1985 in Richmond, VA) received her M.F.A. from the Pratt Institute and her B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her paintings "explore painterly layering as both image and process, probing how visual hierarchies are constructed and perceived. Her compositions reference systems of organization, including grids, networks, and sequences."

She has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria; Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT; SUNNY, New York, NY; Massif Central, Brussels, Belgium; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; and Ceysson & Bénétière, Lyon, France.

Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Louis Buhl & Co., Detroit, MI; Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna, Austria; Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, NY; m.simons, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; and Gaa Projects, Cologne, Germany.

Benson’s work may be found in the collections of the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon; Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, New York, NY; Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA; and the Susan and Michael Hort Collection, New York, NY.

The artist lives and works in the Hudson Valley, NY.