Patricia Benitez
Contemporary Surrealism Oil painting
About
Patricia Benitez is a NYC-based contemporary surrealist painter known for her dark figurative work with a taste for the macabre. Her Uncanny Valley series draws inspiration from the robotics hypothesis by Masahiro Mori, exploring themes of revulsion through hyper-perfected yet flawed human replicas, influenced by haute couture editorial and runway imagery to create visual tension. She produces paintings that blend surrealism with contemporary elements, focusing on mortality salience, identity paradoxes, and violations of human norms.
Contemporary Surrealism with dark figurative and macabre elements