P Bensignor

What I do is a physical and spiritual activity. I have dedicated my whole life with tenacity to this endeavor. It is an act of drawing on a part of my subconscious. This mysterious part of my brain has been programmed before birth and stores accumulated insight, knowledge, and wisdom through years of experience and practice. At first glance, my work may appear conventional. It is a reaction to ‘art’ that appears to be novel, shallow or clever.

I produce works of art, that are in fact hiding deeply in the hidden forces that plugs us to an inner connection to nature. Doing what I do has nothing to do with what is in style or other people’s values. I am on my own personal path. My landscape paintings are rooted in abstract forms, secrets, symbols and verve. Symbols mean what we want them to mean. The powers of symbolic forms have transformed cultures and our world countless of times and have helped humans’ rationalize our place in the universe.

Germantown High '66

University of Pennsylvania '73
BFA

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts '73
Fine Arts

Temple University '73
M.Ed

University of Paris
Fine Arts

SOLO
Art Expo / New York / 2021
JAC / Philadelphia / 2021
Rodger La Pelle Galleries / Philadelphia / 2017
Seascapes / Somers Point / 2014
One & Two Center Square / Philadelphia / 2009
Qbix Gallery / Philadelphia / 2007
Muse Gallery / Philadelphia / 2001-2003
Stapley Hall / Philadelphia / 1999
Audrey Leeds / New York / 1996
Hanson Galleries / New York / 1993
Slater- Price Fine Arts / New York / 1991
West Chester University / West Chester / 1986
Suzanne Cross Gallery / Philadelphia / 1981-1988​
St. Josephs University / Philadelphia / 1979
Gloucester County College / New Jersey / 1978

GROUP
Alumni Museum Galley PAFA / Philadelphia / 2022
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art / PA / 2021
Main Line Center for the Arts / Haverford / 2019
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art / PA / 2018
Rodger Lapelle Galleries / Philadelphia / 2017
The Burrison Gallery / Philadelphia . 2016
Artists in the Garden, PAFA / Morris Arboretum / 2015
Alumni Gallery; PA Academy of Fine Arts / Philadelphia / 2015
Old City Jewish Art Center / Philadelphia / 2009
Tyme Gallery Exhibition / Havertown / 2006-2012
Denise Bibro, “Creatures Show" / New York / 2005-2010
The Esther Klein Gallery; "The Color Green" / Philadelphia / 2004
The Philade...