Abstract Encounters, The Daily Times

On March 30, 2023 ·
By Kelly Curtis ·

By Peg DeGrassa

The abstract works of artist Sandra Benhaim will be on exhibit from April 4 to May 11 at Neumann University in Aston. (COURTESY PHOTO)

ASTON — Neumann University will host “Abstract Encounters,” an exhibition of artwork by Sandra Benhaim, in the McNichol Gallery from April 4 through May 11.

Benhaim, a native Philadelphian, is a painter who works in oil, mixed media, and collages on canvas, wood panels and paper. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts on a full four-year scholarship, and later a Master of Education from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art.

After working representationally for years, she now creates mainly abstract images, often expressing them in unabashed, exuberant color. She has exhibited nationally from Washington state to New York to Florida and has had 11 solo exhibitions.

The Neumann exhibition contains 18 of her original works.

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Abstract Encounters Exhibition, Neumann University

On March 30, 2023 ·
By Kelly Curtis ·

by David Bjorkgren
Neumann University will host Abstract Encounters, an exhibition of artwork by Sandra Benhaim, in the McNichol Gallery from April 4 through May 11.

Benhaim, a native Philadelphian, is a painter who works in oil, mixed media, and collages on canvas, wood panels, and paper.

She earned a BFA on a full four-year scholarship, and later an MEd, from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art.

On November 30, 2022 ·
By Kelly Curtis ·

I’m happy to announce that I completed a commission for a large painting for Servier Laboratories in Boston, MA.

Light Amid The Darkness, 40″ x 60″, acrylic on canvas, was installed November, 2022

Patient Inspiration: Being a young adult cancer patient is so isolating. You watch your friend move on with life, watch their adventures, and listen as they talk about dating and parties, et you are stuck in a horrible alternate reality, the world feels like it’s moving on without you. But you also learn through this journey who your real friends are and you value them deeply. You also learn that once you choose hope, anything becomes possible.

Artist Note: Out of the depths of the deep, dark blue – that is sometimes reminiscent of the upheaval and small (and at time larger) tempests that we encounter in life – is the possibility of light and sunshine, through the warm glows of oranges and yellows, just as you can choose to focus on the light in life, and in art, so too, “once you choose hope, anything is possible.”