It’s My House And I Lived Here//
Take Place


albertz benda, Los Angeles // Hilliard Museum, Lafayette, LA
2024 // 2025

Small paintings depict soft moments of intimacy, observance, and punishment as witnessed within the home. They blur as if to deny their factual existence; living only in private memory, never corroborated by outside witnesses. While larger works situate half seen figures in the straight line architecture of the home. The lines of miniblinds and vinyl siding camouflage equally linear invasions by the outside world; be they nosey neighbors, obtrusive security lights, or the specter of financial entrapment. The lines of safety stack on lines of intrusion and what was once a home takes on the architecture of a cage; trapping the figure in bars of their own protection, threatening to ooze out the privacy they wished to hold within.




Demons Done Got His Ass, 2024
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Neighborhood Watch, 2023
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Heat, 2023
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Discipline, 2023
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Sat’n, 2023
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Motion Sensors, 2023
Oil and acrylic on canvasx
Don’t Forget, 2023
Oil on canvas
Don’t Forget, 2024
Oil on canvas