Christine Benjamin is a painter, illustrator and doll artist who creates her own universe filled with monsters, robots, skeletons, Tiki gods, sock monkeys, aliens, funky people and animals. She loves watching weird, old science fiction and monster movies and reading obscure books and underground comics.
She received a degree in illustration and graphic design from San Jose State University and after graduating did freelance illustration and graphics for companies such as Yahoo!, Hitachi, Apple and Hasbro. She teaches private art lessons in her home studio. She also curates many art shows in the bay area and creates custom commissioned pieces and murals.
Christine's work is shown in galleries in the San Francisco Bay area, Southern California, Mid West, East Coast, Hawaii, Mexico and Canada. She lives in San Jose, CA with her husband and their son.
Studio: 408.425.3180
christinebenjaminart@gmail.com
Photo: Trad'r Don Vigeant
