{"product_id":"rachel-bensimon-shining-in-the-heart","title":"Rachel Bensimon | Shining In The Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003eShining In The Heart\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2026 \u003cbr\u003eoil on panel \u003cbr\u003e16 x 20 unframed \u003cbr\u003e20 x 24 framed \u003cbr\u003eprice $3,800.00\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRachel Bensimon is a Canadian-born artist based in New York City whose paintings explore memory, girlhood, and the inner life through a lens of psychological symbolism and surreal intimacy. Working in oil, she creates emotionally resonant portraits of girls and young women, often accompanied by dolls, animals, and symbolic objects—each piece a quiet ritual, a visual spell, or a whispered fragment of an untold story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom a young age, Rachel turned to drawing as a source of solace and self-expression. That early instinct evolved into a lifelong devotion to visual storytelling. She studied for over a decade at The Art Students League and later earned her MFA at the New York Academy of Art. During her early career, she also worked as a makeup artist in the fashion world, collaborating with top photographers and publications in Paris and New York—a background that continues to inform her sensitivity to form, detail, and atmosphere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch of Rachel’s practice is autobiographical, drawing from childhood memories and emotional landscapes shaped by loss, resilience, and a longing for belonging. Her visual language blends classical technique with a contemporary pop-surrealist aesthetic, drawing inspiration from artists like Balthus, Joseph Cornell, Goya and Mark Ryden.  Whether portraying a solitary girl in a dreamlike interior or a tender moment with a beloved animal, each painting reflects her fascination with the threshold between innocence and knowing, between the seen and the secret.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mortal Machine Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42686567645269,"sku":null,"price":3800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0071\/4833\/9315\/files\/Shining_In_The_Heart_Unframed_RachelBensimon_copy.jpg?v=1783183940","url":"https:\/\/mortalmachinenola.com\/products\/rachel-bensimon-shining-in-the-heart","provider":"Mortal Machine Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}