About

Drawing inspiration from spirituality, esotericism, psychedelic culture and trash, Daniella Ben-Bassat creates paintings that incorporate the surreal into the everyday. Her scenes exist in a liminal place between waking life and the dream world. Floating figures drift in and out of focus, celestial bodies appear. Ethereal moments are grounded by mundane objects such as an alarm clock, a magazine, a banana. A sense of humor underpins Ben-Bassat’s paintings–grounding otherworldly elements and imbuing them with both personal and symbolic depth. References to art history, pop culture and rock and …