Sylvia Benitez
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Purple Backyard, 2024
oil on paper, 9 x 9 inches, 21 x 16 framed, $1500
Just Another Day, 2024
oil on paper, 9 x 9 inches, 21 x 16 framed, $1500
Seems Like Yesterday, 2024
oil on paper, 9 x 9 inches, 21 x 16 framed, $1500
Fall Can Be Green, 2024
oil on paper, 9 x 9 inches, 21 x 16 framed, $1500
Composition in Olive, 2024
oil on paper, 9 x 9 inches, 21 x 16 framed, $1500
Copper March, 2024
oil on paper, 16 x 12 inches, 24 x 20 framed, $2000
Orange Peel, 2024
oil on paper, 16 x 12 inches, 24 x 20 framed, $2000
Road to Lubbock, 2024
oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches, sold
Copper Water, 2024
oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches, $9000
Golden Light, 2023
oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches, sold
Oh, Give Me a Home, 2023
oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches, $5500
Green, 2023
oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches, $4500
Forever Tomorrow, 2023
oil on panel, 24 x 24 inches, 25.5 x 25.5 framed, $2600
Petrichor, 2023
oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches, $4500
Scheherazade, 2023
oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches, 37.5 x 49.5 framed, $5500
Distant Edge, 2023
oil on panel, 24 x 24 inches, sold
Standing Edge, 2023
oil on panel, 24 x 24 inches, sold
Still Waters, 2023
oil on canvas, 44 x 36 inches, sold
Whisper, 2023
oil on canvas, 36 x 44 inches, sold
About the artist...
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.
Visit artist's website - www.sylviabenitez.com