Georgette Benisty was born and raised in Casablanca and has spent many years living and working in the United States. Named for the French fabric Georgette, with its sturdy and diaphanous qualities, the artist, as a child, would playfully enter an imaginative fantasy world, envisioning the gowns which she would later design and successfully market, through Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills and in her own atelier on Newbury Street in Boston.

If handmade lace collages and overt flights of fancy characterized Ms. Benisty's early work, a brave self examination and willingness to pursue her deeper roots have led her to go beyond haute couture. The artist is stitching together broken fragments as she undertakes a vivid exploration, drawing from the colors, rhythms, architecture, and antiquities of her native land. The figures she is assembling embody her life story.

Ms. Benisty may be reached by telphone at (617) 277-1302.