Watch how senior Luca Budofsky untangles the ways materials compound, erode, and shift.
Luca Budofsky (BFA ’26) plays with the “shiftiness” of materials, exploring how they move systematically. Through weaving, painting, ceramics, and photography, Budofsky parses how their own internal mechanisms relate to meteorological systems, industrial mechanisms, and tools used for capture and extraction. Their spring solo show at The Frame Gallery, “Weathering Systems,” examined how land and dirt compound or are carried away over time with various degrees of interference. By playing with dots, bits, lines, and interlacements, Budofsky’s practice avoids a grand scheme while pointing directly at it, allowing materials to assert their own authority.
In this spotlight, Budofsky discusses how their practice evolved at the School of Art and came to “un-tangle and re-tangle” the systems that move in and out of everyday use.
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