Benedict’s projects center on the role that landscape plays in the human experience. In the 1980’s Benedict worked as a graphic designer for the natural history Museum of Northern Arizona and for the National Park Service’s Natural History Associations. The experience of working with scientists and writers influenced her to combine art and science to create series centering on our contradictory relationships with the environment.
Photographer Robert Adams description of landscape as our primal foundation for making sense of the world and our place in it influences her approach to image making. Her focus is on unrecognized yet important elements of the natural world. Her earlier projects, range from memory landscapes; to electrical towers in the American Western; to a child playing in natural history dioramas. Her recent work, Hidden Waters combines art and science envisioning the impact of climate change and overuse on endangered arid-land springs in the West.
Her work is at Fidelity Art Boston; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; Florida Museum of Photographic Arts; New Mexico Museum of Art; Decordova Museum of Art and Sculpture; Harvard's Fogg Museum; and George Eastman Museum.
Solo exhibitions include Florida Museum of Photographic Arts; Griffin Museum of Photography at Stoneham; Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX; and Philadelphia Print Center. Boston City Hall, Mayor’s Gallery. Hidden Waters archive resides in the Museum of Art & Environment, Reno, Nevada.
