LIQUID ART SYSTEM PRESENTS

Beyond the Surface - Tiffany Trenda Solo Exhibition

Liquid Art System presents Beyond the Surface, a new exhibition by Los Angeles–based artist Tiffany Trenda, featuring three new works from her Soft Interfaces series and one work from Loss of Touch.

The exhibition invites viewers to look beyond the image itself and consider the complex relationship between technology, embodiment, and human perception. Through the intersection of digital processes, painting, and mixed media, Trenda examines how the human form is interpreted, transformed, and understood within an increasingly technological landscape. Her works reveal the distance between visual representation and physical experience, asking what remains unseen within an image: the sensation of touch, the memory of the body, and the emotional experience of human presence.

In the Soft Interfaces series, Trenda explores what occurs when artificial intelligence encounters the textures, folds, and organic irregularities of the human body. The works expose the gap between machine perception and lived experience, revealing how materiality, imperfection, and touch resist seamless digital interpretation.

The Loss of Touch series reflects on the evolving relationship between technology and the handmade. Trenda obscures the hands of her figures, referencing the well-known difficulty artificial intelligence has historically had in accurately rendering one of the body’s most expressive forms. The absent hand becomes both a symbol of the limits of machine perception and a meditation on the potential loss of physical art-making. As digital tools become increasingly integrated into creative practices, the work emphasizes the enduring significance of touch, gesture, and the human hand.

While technology can generate, interpret, and reshape representations of the physical world, Trenda’s works reveal the qualities that exist beyond representation. Their layered surfaces become spaces where digital and physical realities meet, emphasizing imperfection, materiality, and human presence.

Ultimately, Beyond the Surface is an exploration of what cannot be fully translated: the emotional, tactile, and embodied dimensions of human experience that continue to give meaning to the images we create and the objects we hold.