{"product_id":"rachel-bensimon","title":"Rachel Bensimon | Abiding In The Self","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eAbiding In The Self\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eoil on panel\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e18 x 24 unframed\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e22 x 28 framed \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eprice $4,600.00\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\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":42686571184213,"sku":null,"price":4600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0071\/4833\/9315\/files\/Abiding_In_The_Self_RachelBensimon_unframedcopy.jpg?v=1783185110","url":"https:\/\/mortalmachinenola.com\/products\/rachel-bensimon","provider":"Mortal Machine Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}