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Sylvia Benitez

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Turquoise

Turquoise

Rain Date

Rain Date

Galloping Trees

Galloping Trees

Dark Heart

Dark Heart

Green Patch

Green Patch

Walden's Pond

Walden's Pond

Purple Backyard

Purple Backyard •

Just Another Day

Just Another Day •

Seems Like Yesterday

Seems Like Yesterday •

Fall Can Be Green

Fall Can Be Green •

Composition in Olive

Composition in Olive

Copper March

Copper March

Orange Peel

Orange Peel

Road to Lubbock

Road to Lubbock •

Copper Water

Copper Water •

Golden Light

Golden Light •

Oh, Give Me a Home

Oh, Give Me a Home

Forever Tomorrow

Forever Tomorrow •

Petrichor

Petrichor •

Scheherazade

Scheherazade •

Turquoise

Turquoise, 2025
oil on canvas, 36 x 44 inches, $5000

Rain Date

Rain Date, 2025
oil on canvas, 36 x 44 inches, $5000

Galloping Trees

Galloping Trees, 2025
oil on canvas, 40x40, $6000

Dark Heart

Dark Heart, 2024
oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches, $4500

Green Patch

Green Patch, 2024
oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches, $6000

Walden's Pond

Walden's Pond, 2024
oil on canvas, 40 x 40 inches, $6000

Purple Backyard

Purple Backyard, 2024
oil on paper, 9 x 9 inches, 21 x 16 framed, sold

Just Another Day

Just Another Day, 2024
oil on paper, 9 x 9 inches, 21 x 16 framed, sold

Seems Like Yesterday

Seems Like Yesterday, 2024
oil on paper, 9 x 9 inches, 21 x 16 framed, sold

Fall Can Be Green

Fall Can Be Green, 2024
oil on paper, 9 x 9 inches, 21 x 16 framed, sold

Composition in Olive

Composition in Olive, 2024
oil on paper, 9 x 9 inches, 21 x 16 framed, $1500

Copper March

Copper March, 2024
oil on paper, 16 x 12 inches, 24 x 20 framed, $2000

Orange Peel

Orange Peel, 2024
oil on paper, 16 x 12 inches, 24 x 20 framed, $2000

Road to Lubbock

Road to Lubbock, 2024
oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches, sold

Copper Water

Copper Water, 2024
oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches, sold

Golden Light

Golden Light, 2023
oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches, sold

Oh, Give Me a Home

Oh, Give Me a Home, 2023
oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches, $5500

Forever Tomorrow

Forever Tomorrow, 2023
oil on panel, 24 x 24 inches, 25.5 x 25.5 framed, sold

Petrichor

Petrichor, 2023
oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches, sold

Scheherazade

Scheherazade, 2023
oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches, 37.5 x 49.5 framed, sold

About the artist...

Sylvia Benitez

View Sylvia Benitez's December 2023 solo show 'Nocturnes and Promises' and artist talk here.

Every day I observe a discreet majesty: rolling hills, big skies, long views, and jade-green rivers. I am inspired by South Texas: the expanse of the evasive sky—the smell of the mingled grasses. I love the rough field and the cow’s distant bellowing…the mist rising. Here, I’ve found an untamed land that is still relatively unmarred by modern footprint, and my painting tries to capture that. To that endeavor, my work ends up not being about one location. Instead, it morphs into an amalgam of collaged sightings–the many variations of landscape themes that I see all the time. These are etched onto my mind’s eye and then reassembled into something new and yet familiar. The resulting work marks time and is, in a way, a visual diary.

Widely exhibited, Sylvia Benitez is a nationally recognized artist, the recipient of many awards from numerous art granting foundations, including: an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant, two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Awards, an AICA Award (Association of International Critics of Art for best exterior sculpture installation 1997, Puerto Rico), two National Endowment for the Arts Visiting Artist Fellowships, a Puffin Foundation Award, an Empire State Craft Award, two Sculpture Space Residencies, two MacDowell Colony Fellowships, and was the 2022 San Antonio Art League and Museum ARTIST OF THE YEAR. Other awarded artist colony residencies include Yaddo, VCCA, Ucross, Vermont Studio Center, and Altos de Chavon in the Dominican Republic. 

Benitez is the Founder and President of the Gentileschi Aegis Gallery Association —www.gagaart.org. GAGA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving women artists of South Texas. The organization has an active membership of 80 members and has served over 100 women artists since its inception in 2010. For it, Benitez has curated, installed, and marketed over 30 thematic exhibitions in recognized cultural centers, galleries, and museums.

Read Wayne Alan Brenner's review of Benitez's work.

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