The Little Oracle's Lament

Rachel Bensimon is a New York-based painter whose narrative, figurative works explore the fragile terrain of memory, identity, and emotional  Working in a pop surrealist style with classical influence, she creates intimate, psychologically charged portrait, mostly young girls, set within tender, dreamlike worlds. Her subjects, rendered with luminous detail, are caught between childhood and awakening, often accompanied by symbolic objects, animals, or rituals that speak to themes of longing, loss, protection, and transformation.

Bensimon draws deeply from her own lived experience, weaving personal memory, archetype, and emotional myth into each piece. Her paintings act as visual memoirs, blending sweetness with sorrow, domestic with uncanny, the visible with the veiled. Through these quiet narratives, she gives form to the internal world of the child left to make sense of chaos—and offers her healing gaze back in time.

She holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art and has exhibited in galleries across the United States.  Her work continues to resonate with viewers who find within it a reflection of their own forgotten stories, inner children, and small devotions.