“Every day I see majesty: rolling hills, big skies, long views, and
jade-green rivers. Where I live, Nature is still unmarred by modern
footprint, and its beauty takes my breath away. My paintings are
about that.”
Sylvia Benitez is an artist and curator who spent her formative art
years in NYC. Now living outside Seguin, she teaches landscape
painting in San Antonio, TX. Benitez is a recognized installation artist
and painter—the recipient of many national awards, including two
MacDowell Colony Residencies; two Pollock Krasner awards; An
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Individual Support Grant; an AICA
award; and Two National Endowment for the Arts Visiting Artist
Fellowships.
Represented by the Hunt Gallery in San Antonio, TX. and now the
Slate Gray Gallery in Kerrville, Benitez’s work can be found in
many private and public collections. Benitez is president and founder
of The Gentileschi Aegis Gallery Association—GAGA— a
10-year-old 501©(3) nonprofit that has served over 100 women
artists from south Texas since its inception, and which boasts today
an active membership of over 70 women artists. Benitez has curated
more than 30 thematic GAGA exhibitions, many of which
have been all-member shows.