Archive for July 2019

Interview by: SD Voyager Magazine Today We’d like to introduce you to Lizet Benrey. So, before we jump into specific questions about the business, why don’t you give us some details about you and your story. Having come from a family of artists, it was only natural to follow suit. My mother, Shirley Chernitsky, was…

Big blockbuster films aren’t just for big screen. Independent movies like The Witching Hour, a compelling psycho drama short film, are making a big splash at film festivals around the country this summer. The term “summer blockbuster” entered the movie goers consciousness in the late 1970s. Today anticipation of what the next summer blockbuster is…

For Mexican-American artist and actress Lizet Benrey, the successful film career on display during San Diego Film Week is the result of pursuing a lifelong dream later in life. Two of her films, the short “Noticed”and feature-length “Carving a Life,”will be shown on March 3 and 5 during the annual event showcasing local filmmakers. Benrey…

BY ROCIO CERON ​ This Was No Nostalgia For Oneself, But Nostalgia For Man. -Ehitel Silva Zegarra Art, in its relationship with the world and the other, has always kept an incessant quest in order to ascertain a passage that makes us see the truth through the edge of a work. Lizet Benrey is not…

Environmentally Conscious Lizet Benrey Pays Tribute To Mother EarthThrough Her Art.   By Marti Gacioch Nature serves as Lizet Benrey’s muse, and her paintings often depict her love for our planet. “I’ve been environmentally conscious my whole life,†Benrey said. “With global warming, I’m inspired to paint the earth and its beauty because I believe that…

Artist Benrey Creates An Ever-Changing Canvas By Sarah Wilkins The place in which Lizet Benrey creates is worlds apart from the one in which she lives. The Carmel Valley artist laces her canvases with bright colors and bold, abstract forms, boasting influences of Japanese calligraphy and Mexican modern art. And yet, the pieces are created…

By Sarah Wilkins Lizet Benrey tends to shy away from the term “filmmaker.†“I’m really an artist making film. For me, the camera is just another brush with which to express myself.†For the Del Mar-based painter turned video artist, it is not so much the story line that counts as the feeling and spirit…

By Mimi Pollack ​ SAN DIEGO– An artistic streak runs in Lizet Benrey’s family. Her late mother, Shirley Chernitsky, was a painter, and Benrey has followed in her footsteps. However, Benrey takes her creativity one step further. Not only is she a talented artist, she is also a filmmaker, actress, and a budding screenplay writer.…

By Dominique Nahas ​ There is no question that artist Lizet Benrey is concerned with the expression of vitalizing energy in her abstract work. Energy in such work is seen as propulsive, charged or diffused. There is a great sense of presencing that occurs: it is, in fact, the main event. The suggestion of incommensurables,…

The Artist’s Being By Lizet Benrey ​ Many times I ask myself what is being an artist, a way of living, a mission, a gift that only humans enjoy, the projection of this gift of creativity of imagination? Do we choose art as our project of life, or does it choose us? Are we creators…