2024 Exhibitions
HORIZONS: A LANDSCAPE SURVEY
September 3 – October 26
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 7, 1-3 p.m.
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Featuring paintings by David T. Kessler, Michael Marlowe, Travis Rice, Ellen Wagener, and Jim Waid, HORIZONS: A Landscape Survey transports viewers to landscapes both real and surreal, ethereal and hard-edged, vibrant and meditative. Each canvas is a travelogue in paint, a story replete with mystery and surprise, wherein viewers explore lands that are lush with foliage, rippling with tidal eddies, and bursting with Sonoran color.
Join us Saturday, September 7, 1-3 p.m. for an artist-attended opening reception.
PHOENIX BIOSCIENCE CORE’S ARx3
ARTIST + RESEARCHER EXHIBITION
August 20 – August 31
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 24, 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
Opening remarks begin promptly at 12:00 p.m.
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Neighboring the gallery, Phoenix Bioscience Core is at the center of Phoenix’s connected biotech ecosystem; it is home to corporate, federal, and early-stage life science leaders located alongside nationally ranked medical education and academic research. The PBC Arts Committee was formed in 2022 for what remains its largest and most-anticipated initiative: Artist + Researcher (ARx) program. The initiative pairs local Phoenix artists with researchers from the PBC to develop translational pieces of art that communicate groundbreaking life science research in new and innovative ways.
Bentley Gallery’s director, Craig Randich, is proud to serve on the committee and is excited to help announce the results from the third cohort of Artist + Researchers at a special First Look event. This year’s research topics include cerebrovascular health, dementia, stroke, DNA replication, mental health, and cancer research as manifest in the art mediums of sculpture, painting, drawing, and interactive animation.
Please join us at Bentley Gallery on Saturday, August 24, 11:30-3:30 p.m. to hear from the eight teams of local artists and researchers from Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and University of Arizona. Further details and agenda can be found through the RSVP link below.
BILL DAMBROVA | JUNGLE GYM
July 16 – August 17
Opening Reception: July 20, 1-3 p.m.
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This July, guest artist Bill Dambrova performs creative alchemy to transform our gallery space into JUNGLE GYM, an immersive exhibition that includes 13 brand new paintings from the artist as well as recent explorations in sculpture and installation art.
The artist is no stranger to transforming spaces. In a first public art project, Dambrova was asked to design a terrazzo floor for Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport which recently opened to the public. He has created other site specific installations for Burning Man, East Jesus, and Meow Wolf.
Dambrova is a native Arizonan and ASU graduate with a BA in Studio Art. Based in Phoenix and working from his art studio in the historic Bragg’s Pie Factory Building downtown, he has been focusing on his art practice as well as designing exhibitions for well-known museums, zoos and aquariums across the United States.
He has had solo exhibitions of his work at Torrance Art Museum in California and Mesa Museum of Contemporary art, and group exhibitions in notable museums and galleries including The Phoenix Art Museum, Tucson Museum of Art, Sky Harbor Airport Museum and the University of Arizona. His work can be found in the public collections of institutions such as The Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona State University Art Museum, The City of Scottsdale, The Sky Harbor Airport Museum, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, The State of New Mexico: Art in Public Places Program, DuPont, Kroger, The City of Tempe, and The Phoenix Suns Legacy Partners.
Join us Saturday, July 20, 1-3 p.m. for a unique opening reception event. Meet the artist, learn about his inspirations, and explore JUNGLE GYM.
MALA BREUER | MYSTIC SOUTHWEST
April 30 – May 25
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 4, 1-3 p.m.
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Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school, she attended the San Francisco Art Institute where she studied under many notable artists, including Richard Diebenkorn, Clyfford Still, David Park, and Mark Rothko. Breuer matured as an artist in, and was profoundly affected by, the era of Abstract Expressionism, focusing more on material and application than representation. By the late 1960s, she was pouring water-thinned washes of acrylic paint onto large, stretched and wet, vertical canvases. During an exhibition of those works, a San Francisco gallerist suggested that she head to New York where abstraction, minimalism, and conceptual art were continuing to gain traction. Breuer listened to this advice and set out to New York with intentions of staying only one year; she stayed for eight. In New York, she began working with a palette knife, making direct, abstract marks with dark colors and with great density. She gained recognition as a significant painter during her time there.
In 1984, Breuer moved to northern New Mexico, a landscape that influenced her use of color, light, and more minimal compositions. She painted for another twenty-plus years in the southwestern desert until her death in 2017.
Breuer exhibited internationally and alongside notable contemporaries including Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, and Agnes Martin. Her work is included in the collections of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, NM; Albuquerque Museum, NM; and Capital Group in Los Angeles, CA.
Join us for an opening reception on Saturday, May 4th, from 1-3 p.m. to experience a curated selection of works from Breuer’s accomplished career.
RAPHAËLLE GOETHALS | SYNESTHESIA
April 2 – April 27
Artist-Attended Opening Reception: Saturday, April 6, 1-3 p.m.
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Raphaëlle Goethals’ masterful encaustics are deeply influenced by natural elements—water, air, earth, wind, tectonic and climate shifts, marine currents and population movements. They translate experiences of specific light (like that of the southwest, Morocco, Corsica, et al.) through a complex layering of surface that develops organically.
Of the work, the artist says: By slowly applying and reworking multiple layers, I make paintings that contain evidence of their long evolution, like the earth’s surface. However, all is filtered through a lens of art history, personal and collective, and a deep spiritual longing. This is fundamental to our human nature; I need the art to connect us to our profound humanity.
Born and raised in Brussels, Raphaëlle Goethals came to the States in 1981 to further her education at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, CA. Attracted to the vastness of the landscape and quality of light, she relocated to New Mexico in 1994 where she developed her mature painting style. Through her career she has featured in Art in America, Art News, Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest, and Luxe magazine, among others. She is represented in numerous museum collections including Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, New Mexico Museum of Fine Art, Boise Art Museum, Grace Museum, as well as numerous corporate and private collections.
Bentley Gallery is pleased to invite you to join us for an artist-attended opening reception on Saturday, April 6, 1-3 p.m. The exhibition will be on view through April 27.
MARK POMILIO | UNIVERSAL PATTERNS
February 27 – March 30, 2024Artist-Attended Opening Reception: Saturday, March 2, 1-3 p.m.
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“It’s strange, and fascinating, how we arrive at our art,” says Pomilio. “Inconceivable from the start but now, decades into my journey, it all makes perfect sense.”
Throughout his career, whether in oil on canvas or charcoal on paper, Mark Pomilio has plucked sense from life’s chaos by using the language of space and form: geometry. He considers how the natural world organizes itself under universal growth patterns and instead of seeking to visually depict those patterns, he creates using his own geometric systems of iterative growth. The work is both subtle and complicated, elegant and alive, and Bentley Gallery is pleased to debut brand new works as part of this exciting solo exhibition.
Mark Pomilio features in solo museum and gallery exhibitions nationally and internationally, including Luxehill Museum in Chengdu, China; the Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salapetriere, in Paris, France; Art Resources Transfer, in New York City; and LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe. Originally from Philadelphia, Pomilio currently lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona. He is a Professor of Painting and Drawing at Arizona State University.
We invite you to join us for an artist-attended opening reception the first Saturday in March; Saturday, March 2, 1-3 p.m.
JAN MAARTEN VOSKUIL | SIMILAR PAINTING DIFFERENT OBJECT
January 31 – February 24Artist-Attended Opening Reception: Saturday, February 3, 1-3 p.m.
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Jan Maarten Voskuil stretches his paintings into the third dimension. His crafted, partly curved wooden constructions are based on simple geometric principles: the circle, the square, and the rectangle. He stretches the frames with linen and usually paints them in monochrome colors. With a minimum of means, he manages to develop a broad spectrum with his work whereby he partly stands in the tradition of the constructive, minimal, and concrete art of the twentieth century. His work is labeled as spatial object, sculpture, autonomous design or even architecture. Over the years, his ingenious stretchers have become primarily modular constructions, which can sometimes be assembled in various ways. This makes him not only a painter but also a “builder” of paintings.
Voskuil was born in Arnhem, Netherlands in 1964. He graduated in Arts at the Rijks University of Groningen and attended the Ateliers Arnhem (post-grad) at the Art Academy of Arnhem. He is a curator and artist, represented, amongst others, by Gallery Rob de Vries and Sebastien Fath Contemporary in the Netherlands and by Bentley Gallery in the US. Voskuil’s work is in several museum collections in the Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, and the U.S., and in private and corporate collections in Europe, China, Japan, Australia, and the Americas. He currently lives and works in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Bentley Gallery is excited to introduce Jan Maarten Voskuil in his first solo exhibition with the gallery. See these architectural paintings and speak with the artist in-person on Saturday, February 3, 1-3 p.m. during the opening reception.
ZIYUN XUN | IMPERMANENCE
January 3 – January 27, 2024Artist-Attended Opening Reception: Saturday, January 6, 1-3 p.m.Add to Calendar
To describe her creative approach, Ziyun Xun often cites Eastern philosophy, quoting the Buddha: “All conditioned phenomena are like a dream, an illusion, a bubble, a shadow, like dew or a flash of lightning. Thus, we shall perceive them.” Xun applies this concept of the “illusory visual” to generate feelings of impermanence for viewers; here, the more oblique the viewing angle, the greater the emergence of bright colors designed to reward these temporary and atypical vantage points.
To achieve this effect, Xun’s process is incredibly meticulous: she applies thin strips of painter’s tape to her raw canvases, leaving tight, linear patterns across the surface. Before she removes the masking, she continuously revisits the work with rollers of acrylic paint, adding layer on layer of pigment until significant sculptural lines have built up. Lastly, a final wash of oil paint seals the lines with a contrasting gloss.
In this macro detail, the high-relief of the paint can be seen against the fibers of the natural linen canvas.
See Ziyun Xun’s fascinating series of contemporary op-art in person on Saturday, January 6 from 1-3 p.m. during the opening reception, a one-of-a-kind art viewing experience.
2023 Exhibitions
HEATHER HUTCHISON | FROM HERE TO HERE
November 29 – December 30pening Reception: Saturday, December 2, 1-3 p.m.Add to Calendar
In her first solo exhibition with Bentley Gallery, Heather Hutchison is showcasing a brand new suite of eco-feminist constructions that capture the phenomenological essence of light in natural environments. Each artwork is a direct inquiry into the perceptual experience of color, light, and shadow particular to a time of day and place. In recent works, the artist is emphasizing the horizontal world that surrounds us, as she finds inspiration in the ever-present rhythms and syncopations of nature.Largely self-taught, Hutchison has developed and innovated methods and mediums including hand-building and bending Plexiglas forms to facilitate her artistic process. She shares similar concerns with the Light and Space artists and has spent decades observing and contemplating nature, raised between coastal Oregon, Laguna Beach, Marin County, and the mile-high desert along the southern border in Bisbee, Arizona. For the past twenty years, she has lived, worked, and raised her family in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York.
Since her first solo exhibition in SoHo in 1989, Hutchison has exhibited widely and is included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Hammer Museum (LA), and Smithsonian Museum of American History (D.C.). She has been included in exhibitions at the Montclair Art Museum, the Knoxville Museum of Art, and in D.C.’s Corcoran Gallery of Art.
See this captivating series in person on Saturday, December 2 from 1-3 p.m. during the opening reception. Our large windows and the angled daylight provide an incredibly unique experience of Hutchison’s work. Please join us!
JIMI GLEASON | CHROMATIC REALM
November 2 – November 25Artist-Attended Opening Reception: Saturday, November 4, 1-3 p.m.Add to Calendar
The surfaces of Jimi Gleason’s paintings have always responded to both the light and space of the environment they are in. Working with shimmery pearlescent paints and mirror-like silver deposit, he carefully builds up layers that shift subtly. Many of his paintings feature densely worked edges framing largely vacant centers to keep the focus firmly on the quality of the color and light, and the viewer’s own perception of them.
His work is included in the collections of Dakota Studios, New York; Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; Hilton Headquarters, McLean, VA; Sun America, Kaufman Broad Home Corporation, Los Angeles, CA; and numerous private collections. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Learn more about the work directly from the artist on Saturday, November 4 from 1-3 p.m. during the opening reception. See how Gleason’s decades-long exploration of light and material has evolved into his latest body of work.
MICHAEL MARLOWE | MIDWEST
October 4 – October 28Artist-Attended Reception: Saturday, October 7, 3-5 p.m.add to my calendar
Michael Marlowe’s large-scale painting process is rooted in an abstract approach to imagery of our biological world. His painterly transcriptions examine and vibrantly animate isolated aspects of our bodies and their environments, the organic in conversation with the manmade. In MIDWEST, Marlowe invokes the rolling plains and agricultural rows of the region, memories of his own youthful experiences dramatized by way of color and scale.
“The idea, very abstractly, are these contoured shapes—maybe a hill or a landscape—very minimal, very simple; a gestural line, then, between those lines and that volume, this cavity is created. Between organic lines are more constructed lines. It comes directly from my experiences, as a kid, walking furroughs, walking the fields.”
Michael Marlowe is a studio artist, interior designer, and art director with previous experience as a production designer working in the film and television industry. He attended the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design Architecture and Art and Arizona State University, earning several degrees culminating in an MFA in set design for theater. He has been exhibiting nationally in both group and solo exhibition since 1982.
Please join us Saturday, October 7, from 3-5 p.m. for the artist-attended opening reception of MIDWEST.
BENTLEY GALLERY | ANNUAL GROUP EXHIBITION – PART II
August 30 – September 30Reception: Saturday, September 2, 1-3 p.m.add to my calendar
Bentley Gallery has been synonymous with contemporary art in the southwest for nearly 40 years. As summer winds down, see the range of regional, national, and international talent represented on our roster during part two of our annual group exhibition on McKinley Street.
These dynamic and dimensional works—in stone, paint, thread, graphite, and a myriad of other materials—truly sing in the bright, natural light of our exhibition space. Please join us for the opening reception, Saturday, September 2, 1-3 p.m.; exhibition runs through September 30.
BENTLEY GALLERY | ANNUAL GROUP EXHIBITION – PART II
August 30 – September 30Reception: Saturday, September 2, 1-3 p.m.add to my calendar
Bentley Gallery has been synonymous with contemporary art in the southwest for nearly 40 years. As summer winds down, see the range of regional, national, and international talent represented on our roster during part two of our annual group exhibition on McKinley Street.
These dynamic and dimensional works—in stone, paint, thread, graphite, and a myriad of other materials—truly sing in the bright, natural light of our exhibition space. Please join us for the opening reception, Saturday, September 2, 1-3 p.m.; exhibition runs through September 30.
BENTLEY GALLERY | ANNUAL GROUP EXHIBITION
June 14 – July 15
Opening: Saturday, June 17, 1-3 p.m.
Bentley Gallery has been synonymous with contemporary art in the southwest for nearly 40 years. This summer, see the range of regional, national, and international talent represented on our roster during our first group exhibition on McKinley Street. Works of sculpture, drawing and painting will be on view in the beautiful light of this crisp, new architectural space, right in the heart of downtown Phoenix.
JAKE FISCHER | INTERPERMEATE
May 17 – June 10
Opening: Saturday, May 20, 1-3 p.m.
Artist will be in attendance
In Jake Fischer’s paintings, the word interpermeate represents the idea that light and dark are equally and mutually pervasive in defining space just as the physical environment and our mental processes are equally and mutually pervasive in defining experience.
In a new interview with American Art Collector, editor Sarah Gianelli asks Fischer about his shadowy streetscapes and their analogy to consciousness, the duality of life’s inner and outer worlds. Fischer says, “Everyday experience relies on both sides of that coin—I’m moving through time and space having a physical experience, but it’s also the thoughts I’m having. They rely on each other to create an entire experience.”
DESERT LIGHT
April 19 – May 13
Opening: Saturday, April 22, 1-3 p.m.
Andy Moses is interested in pushing the physical properties of paint. Through chemical reactions, viscosity interference, and gravity dispersion, Moses creates elaborate compositions that mimic nature and its forces. DESERT LIGHT is a body of work that responds to the corporeal sense of infinite space that drifts in on California’s ocean breezes and across the Southwest’s vast, desert expanses. Light and space elongate in these natural spaces and Moses channels this time warp through both material and process.
Born in Los Angeles in 1962, Moses attended California Institute of the Arts from 1979 to 1981. After graduation, he moved to New York and had first group exhibition at Artist’s Space in 1986. His first solo exhibition followed shortly thereafter at Annina Nosei Gallery in 1987. He has continued to exhibit in New York, L.A., and abroad over the past twenty-five years. Moses moved back to the Los Angeles area in 2000, where he currently lives and works.
HIGH-DEF COLOR PHASE
March 15 – April 15
Opening: Saturday, March 18, 1-3 p.m.
Los Angeles-based Dion Johnson makes hard-edged, abstract paintings with dynamic color fields and lines. In his works, bold, contrasting swathes droop down and slide across his canvases, existing simultaneously as line, shape, and color. HIGH-DEF COLOR PHASE features the latest works from Johnson’s studio. In the introductory essay for the exhibition’s catalog, art critic David Pagel gives new language to what makes Johnson’s latest body of work so special. Pagel states, “Color has always been integral to what Dion Johnson does as an artist and his new paintings are no exception: They treat color as something so unique and powerful that words cannot come close to naming the peculiar, idiosyncratic colors he mixes in his studio, much less capturing the one-of-a-kind nature of each of his handcrafted shades, tones, and tints.”
CANVAS II
February 17 – March 11
Opening: Friday, February 17, 6-8 p.m.
Join us one week from today, the third Friday in February, for an opening of new sculpture by Jeremy Thomas. Stemming from a pandemic-era urge to be “cleaner and lighter”, Thomas traded steel for canvas in his latest body of colorful work. Still using the process of inflation to very literally sculpt with air, Thomas coats his stitched design in resin, inflates the work, and then manipulates the form until each crease and fold are just so. Lastly, he leaves the work to harden and cure into its final form before the finishing surface treatments. Of the process, Thomas says, “There’s an immediacy to fabric, and it allows me to get shapes that I’ve always wanted to get with steel but couldn’t.” Learn more about Jeremy Thomas’ fascinating process and see the work in person one week from today.
PORTALS
January 20 – February 11
Opening: Friday, January 20, 6-8 p.m.
Join us the third Friday in January for an opening of new works by Jim Waid. Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured. His canvases barely contain the imagined landscape painted upon them; lush with growth they invite the viewer to explore the space. Of his latest works, Waid says, “These recent paintings are the result of a decades long dialog with nature and the expressive possibilities of paint. These paintings are portals for the mind to travel.” The exhibition opens with an artist-attended reception on January 20, from 6-8 p.m., all are welcome.
2022 Exhibitions
BROKEN LOOSE
This Third Friday, November 18, from 6 to 9 p.m., we open our first exhibition in our new home at 250 E. McKinley St. in downtown Phoenix.
We are thrilled to be opening our new space with a showing of spectacular works by the late abstractionist icon Ed Moses. Fearless in his explorations, Moses engaged in what he saw as the continual process of discovery for over half a century. His compositions include Braque-inspired, semi-representational scenes; abstract, allover patterns; color fields; hard-edged geometric shapes; and his late-career “crackle paintings”. Broken Loose is a curated collection of samples from Moses’ complete oeuvre that showcase the gamut of the artist’s explorations.
TONDO
Main Gallery Exhibition
February 18 – May 21, 2022
Opening Reception: Friday, February 18, 6-8 p.m.
Featuring: Louise Blyton, Andy Moses, Devorah Sperber, Jan Maarten Voskuil, and Jim Waid.
Breaking the convention of the rectangular canvas, this collection of contemporary abstract work is presented exclusively in the round! A traditional renaissance form, the tondo—a circular work of art—gained popularity in 15th century Italy when rounded architectural features were en vogue. Bringing this centuries-old practice into the present day with their own unique flair, the artists of “TONDO” reflect a large diversity of styles, mediums, and aesthetics. From hard-edge matte paintings to those of poured metallics, from spools of thread to shaped linen, this exhibition showcases a wide range of talented artists willing to break an almost cardinal rule of contemporary painting, proving also that history can indeed come full circle.
CADENCE
Main Gallery Exhibition
December 27, 2021 – February 12, 2022
Opening Reception: Friday, December 17, 6-8 p.m.
Famed jazz musician Count Basie once said, “If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!” The artists of “CADENCE” similarly extol the virtues of repetition. Across mediums of watercolor, fiber, steel, paint, acrylic plastic, and charcoal, each artist crafts distinct visual phrases that are then multiply iterated in form, tone, or motion to impressive effect. Through pattern, rhythm, and repetition, the anomalous is amplified and the artist’s hand is brought back to fore.
2021 Exhibitions
SARAH BRODSKY’S RING
An Art Installation by Rick Levinson
Exhibition Dates: August 18th to October 9th 2021
Sarah Brodsky’s Ring is a kinetic, multimedia installation featuring paintings on free-hanging linens, sculptural assemblage, and works on paper. Through text and visual narrative, guest artist Rick Levinson creates an experiential journey through time, across generations, anchored by the gravitas of one tragic artifact.
Annual Summer Exhibition
July 2, 2021 – August 13, 2021
Opening: Friday, July 2, 6-8 p.m.
Chromatic Exhibition
Color Theory Exhibition
2020 Exhibitions
Annual Group Exhibition
$2,500 x 18
May 22 – TBA, 2020
10% of sales will be donated to Artlink, an Arizona nonprofit organization.
More than ever, we all need to get lost in a work of art. In these times of necessary caution, the joy found in a sublime composition, an intuitive mark, a compelling idea, some luscious textures, a satisfying hard edge, or a surprising splash of color is essential to our well being. We’ve been staring at the same four walls for weeks and we can all use a meaningful shift in perspective.
Repetition
Showed: March 20th, 2020 – May 22th, 2020
Repetition was a two-person show featuring works by Peter Millett and Jeremy Thomas. Both artists are pragmatic in their artistic approach, adhering to a process-based practice that employ the use of recurring forms to create inspired sculptures. Millet constructs distinct structures through an additive process born from intuition and curiosity. Thomas inflates sumptuous metal shapes with pressurized air to bring them into full dimensionality. Each artist explores a geometric language of shape and space, underscored by a high degree of skill and imagination.
Pigment
Showed: January 17th, 2020 – March 14th, 2020
Pigment was a group show featuring works by Louise Blyton, Makoto Fujimura, Raphaëlle Goethals, Judith Kruger and Hiroko Otake. These notable artists delved into the exploration of color not merely as visual sensation, but its physical manifestation as raw pigment and all that it conjures.
The fact that color is not tangible tends to be overlooked. Our eyes detect light with wavelengths that bounces off objects, determining the particular color we see. This selection of artworks engages with the corporeal material that governs what we perceive as color. Whether it’s the application of natural minerals to affirm our relationship with the earth or the vibrancy of pure pigment to accentuate form. Each of these artists utilizes the physical aspect of color to give meaningful insight into our visual faculty and beyond.
2019 Exhibitions
Natural Rhythms
Showed: November 15th, 2019 – January 11th, 2020
Natural Rhythms was a two-person show featuring work by David Kessler and Jim Waid. Both artists have explored the delicate wonder of nature for decades. Their work reveals a heightened sense of our desert environment through skilled mark making and exceptional technique. In these artists’ masterful hands, one does not merely view the landscape; it becomes an experience.
Digital Process
Showed: September 20th – November 9th, 2019
Digital Process, was a two-person show featuring new works by Mike Jacobs and Travis Rice. These two artists highlight the shift occurring in art making today through the use of cutting-edge technology. They explore our post-digital world where instead of exclusively working with paint and canvas they integrate bytes and pixels. Both artists use digital tools to create exquisitely crafted works of art that cut through the visual noise of our everyday.
Annual Summer Show
Showed: July 23 – September 14th, 2019
Bentley Gallery invited art enthusiasts to escape the heat and come into a very cool inviting gallery filled with hot artwork. Artists and artwork were rotated through the course of the show.
In the Absence of Color
Showed: May 17 – July 13th, 2019
In the Absence of Color was a group show that featured works by Bryan David Griffith, Daniel Brice, Robert Kelly, Ricardo Mazal, Udo Nöger, George Thiewes, Jeremy Thomas, Denise Yaghmourian, Judith Foosaner, and Chul Hyun Ahn.
After a successful Color Spectrum show, Bentley Gallery proudly presented In the Absence of Color as a counterpoint. We show works by artists that use a monochrome palette; in doing so we are able to focus on elements such as composition, value, gesture, and form. Whether a hard edge drawn with charcoal, a sprinkling of paint or built up residue from smoke, the restrained use of color is the unifying thesis.
Color Spectrum
Showed: March 14 – May 11th, 2019
Color Spectrum was a group show that featured works by Chul Hyun Ahn, Dion Johnson, and Eric Zammitt. Working across disciplines including fluorescent lights, mirrors, and acrylic paint, the artists in this exhibition expanded our understanding of both the complexity and variant nature of color and how it operates within a two and three-dimensional surface. Making daring visual choices and utilizing a wide array of materials, these artists explored the tensions between content and materiality, symmetry and asymmetry and light and dark.
In, On & Of Paper
Showed: January 18 – March 9th, 2019
Bentley Gallery featured 22 artists who recalibrate the limits of the traditional paper surface, breaking boundaries and challenging preconceived notions of materiality.
Exhibitions From Previous Years
2018
Works on Paper, William Anastasi, Daniel Brice, Fernando Diaz, Jun Kaneko, Michael Marlowe, Udo Noger, Mark Pomilio, Travis Rice, George Thiewes
Out of 145 Degrees Fahrenheit, Michael David, Bryan David Griffith, Mitja Tusek, Hiro Yokose
Annual Summer Exhibition, Daniel Brice, Jimi Gleason, Leopoldo Cuspinera Madrigal, Michael Marlowe, Peter Millet, Udo Noger, Mark Pomilio, Devorah Sperber, Denise Yaghmourian
Objects of Memory, Denise Yaghmourian
A Deeper Season, Michael Marlowe
Selected Works, Devorah Sperber
New Works, Daniel Brice
Silver & Pearl, Jimi Gleason
2017
Symmetries, Mark Pomilio
Selected Works, Philip Moulthrop
The Inside of Light, Chris Gustin, Udo Noger
Merging Places and Moments, Leopoldo Cuspinera Madrigal, Peter Millett
Art on Paper, Daniel Brice, Dion Johnson, Hiro Yokose, George Thiewes, Bryan David Griffith
Abstraction in the Singular, Jonathan Apgar, Bill Dambrova, Kent Familton, Layne Farmer, Yvette Gellis, Rema Ghuloum, Rachel Goodwin, Audra Graziano, Jenny Hager, Dion Johnson, Michael Kindred Knight, Christopher Kuhn, Joe Lloyd, John Mills, Maysha Mohamedi, Ian Pines, Mark Pomilio, Max Presneill, Alison Rash, Byan Ricci, Travis Rice, Nano Rubio, David Spanbock, Marie Thibeault, Samantha Thomas, Chris Trueman
Non-functional Slack-fill, Jeremy Thomas
2016
Selected Works, Woods Davy, Tom Lieber
Terra Incognita, Jim Waid
Hello!, Leopoldo Cuspinera Madrigal, Jake Fischer, Stephen Knapp, David Kuraoka, Tom Lieber, Michael Marlowe, Udo Noger
New Work, Hiro Yokose
Off the Wall, Jonathan Cross, Mary Cary Horowitz, Peter Millet, Mark Pomilio, Devorah Sperber, George Thiewes, Jeremy Thomas, Yoram Wolberger, Denise Yaghmourian
Radiant Hues, Mala Breuer
Shifting Waterscapes, David Kessler
New Work, Matt Moulthrop, Philip Moulthrop
Mirror Mirror: Rare Photographs of Frida Kahlo, Luciene Bloch, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Imogen Cunningham, Fritz Henle, Guillermo Kahlo, Leo Matiz, Nickolas Murray, Carl Van Vechten
2015
Luminous Trajectories, Dion Johnson
Survey: 12 Artists 3 Dimensions, Charles Arnoldi, Dominique Blain, Stephanie Blake, Jonathan Cross, Woods Davy, John Luebtow, Peter Millett, Mark Pomilio, George Thiewes, Jeremy Thomas, Yoram Wolberger, Denise Yaghmourian
Regularly Speaking, Charles Arnoldi, Stephanie Bachiero, Daniel Brice, Jonathan, Cross, Jimi Gleason, Robert Kelly, Peter Millett, Jill Moser, Jeremy Thomas, Jim Waid
Minimally Speaking, Stephanie Bachiero, John Luebtow, Matt Magee, Peter Millett, Mark Pomilio, Denise Yaghmourian
Bursting at the Seams, Jeremy Thomas
New York to Santa Fe, Mala Breuer
A Decade of Painting, Jill Moser
Blackout, Dominique Blain
2014
Selected Works, Enrique (Sebastian) Carbajal
Paintings, Eric Orr
Outside In, Judith Kruger
Paintings, Ricardo Mazal
Paper/Works, William Anastasi, Charles Arnoldi, Dominique Blain, Daniel Brice, Francesco Clemente, Dorothy Fratt, Robert Kelly, Ed Kienholz, Mark Pomilio, Jim Waid
New Works, Matt Moulthrop, Philip Moulthrop
New Works, Tim Bavington
Threshold, Jim Waid
Jun Kaneko, Black & White
2013
Gold Rush: Contemporary Art that Shifts Cultural Associations with the World’s Most Treasured Metal, Lita Albuquerque, Olga de Amaral, Will Berry, Angelo Filomeno, Lawrence Fodor, Makoto Fujimura, Jimi Gleason, Martin Cary Horowitz, Jun Kaneko, Robert Kushner, Nancy Lorenz, Alonso Mateo, Eric Orr, Luis Gonzalez Palma, Andrew Schoultz
Anagama: Ceramic Works, Dan Anderson, Chris Gustin, John Hopkins, Matt Long, Don Reitz, Mat Rude
New Ceramic Works, Don Reitz
The Moulthrops: The Distinctive Work of Two Generations of Georgia Wood Turners, Matt Moulthrop, Philip Moulthrop
NeoChroma: A Contemporary Survey of the Use of Brilliant Color as Emphasis in Abstract Painting, Tim Bavington, Ali Smith, Daniel Brice, Oliver Arms, Jill Moser, Feodor Voronov
New Paintings, John Sonsini
Natural Order, Mark Pomilio
Camber, Jeremy Thomas
2012
Dangos, Heads, Paintings, Jun Kaneko
Western Zen, Woods Davy
California Paintings, Daniel Brice
2011
A Life in Clay, Don Reitz
New Paintings, Terrence La Noue
New Paintings, Jimi Gleason
2010
New Work, Matt Moulthrop, Philip Moulthrop
Small Works, Catherine Courtenaye, Rachel Darnell, Lawrence Fodor, Colette Hosner, Jun Kaneko, Louis de Mayo, Bobby Silverman, Jeremy Thomas, Ellen Wagener, Denise Yaghmourian, Hiro Yokose, Lucinda Young
No Better Place, Thomas Skomski
Altered Narratives in Stoneware & Porcelain, Ryan Mitchell
Ceramics, Ah Leon
Mechanisms of Life Unwinding, Pete Deise
American Landscapes, Louis DeMayo
Recent Painting, Michael David
2009
colLABORation (with DOSE), Hector Ruiz
Extra Time, Klaus Rinke
American Fictions, Rogelio “Gory” Lopez
Sea of the Unseen, Cristina Kahlo
Selected Works, Keith Haring
2008
New Works, Tom Waldron
Eden’s Edge, Ellen Wagener
New Paintings & Site-Specific Installation, Pat Steir
Emergent Features II, Carrie Seid
L’art m’emmerde j’ai participle ‘a cette expo, Hector Ruiz
Silent Metronome Series, Sammy Peters
Illusion & Fantasy, Alonso Mateo
Temporary Current, Gustavo Acosta
Au Courant, Rocio Rodriguez, Michael Todd, Laura Bell, Richard Erlich, Patrick McFarlin, Jill Moser, Jerome Powers, Robert Brady, James Marshall, John Rose, Walter Marton and Paloma Munoz, Charles Arnoldi, Robert Flynn, Nellie King Solomon, Zoe Hersey
New Photographs, Tom Baril
Relaciones, Jose Bedia
Thesmophoria, Simon Casson
Recent Paintings, Catherine Courtenaye
Intuitions: New Paintings, Willy Heeks
Snow Globes & Large Format Photographs, Walter Martin, Paloma Muñoz
2007
New Works, Charles Arnoldi
Monumental Sculpture from the Lexeme Series, Bill Barrett
The Pull of the Air, Will Berry
Selected Works, Thomas Brummett
Catalogue of the Iliad, Simon Casson
New Paintings, Bernd Haussmann
Heaven and Earth: Rare Chinese Jade Bi Discs and Cong Cylinders from the Neolithic Period
Tipping Point, Cynthia Innis
Memorable Selections, Jun Kaneko
New Paintings on Aluminum, David Kessler
New Paintings, Kathy Moss
New Paintings, Mark Rediske
Continuity, John Rose
New Sculptures, Hector Ruiz
7 Years of Graphics, Richard Serra
Selections from The Eye of the Artist: The Work of Devorah Sperber, Devorah Sperber
One Hundred Landscapes, Hiro Yokose
2006
Art 21: Art in the 21st Century (in conjunction with PBS), Laylah Ali, Eleanor Antin, Ida Applebroog, Cai Guo-Qiang, Ellen Gallagher, Ann Hamilton, Arturo Herrera, Oliver Herring, Roni Horn, Mike Kelley, Louise Bourgeois, Josiah McElheny, Matthew Ritchie, Susan Rothenberg, Jessica Stockholder, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Richard Tuttle, Fred Wilson, Kara Walker, Krzysztof Wodiczko
New Paintings, Diana Clauss
Grids, Kris Cox
Cantamar, Woods Davy
Grandeur Lost, Michael Eastman
New Paintings, Lawrence Gipe
New Works, Zoe Hersey
New Works, Robert Kelly
Naming Game, Jill Moser
Flower, John Nelson
Paintings on Aluminum, Patti Parsons
New Paintings, Sammy Peters
The Standard, Hector Ruiz
Silk & Copper Paintings, Carrie Seid
Found Objects, Joe Willie Smith
Wild Edges, Ellen Wagener
New Paintings, Emmi Whitehorse
A Life in Sculpture, Anthony Caro
2005
Retrospective: Paintings & Sculpture, Jennifer Bartlett
New Works, Dominique Blain
The Kenwood Series (in conjunction with the artist, Garth Clark Gallery, and Scripps College), Sir Anthony Caro
Aphrodite’s Ceinture, Simon Casson
Chandeliers & Other Forms, Dale Chihuly
Configuration: Exploring Contemporary Interpretations of the Human Figure, Joe Biel, Collin Chilag, Carol Es
New Paintings, Cora Cohen
Modern Calligraphy, Catherine Courtenaye
Canto Rodato, Woods Davy
Horses, Michael Eastman
America, Michael Eastman
Small Drawings, 1945-1960, John Graham
Paintings, Bernd Haussmann
Paintings, James Havard
Madame Butterfly, Jun Kaneko
Paintings, Robert Kelly
American Landscapes, David Kessler
New Paintings, Gary Lang
Retrospective, Robert Longo
Frescoes, Marcia Myers
Vacancy, John Nelson
Large Scale Watercolors, Laurie Reid
Waterfall Paintings, Pat Steir
Electrified Installations, Peter Stainfield
The Cultivated Desert, Ellen Wagener
2004
New Paintings, John Alexander
Bentley Projects Grand Opening Exhibition, Jim Dine, Julian Schnabel, Jennifer Bartlett, Frank Stella, Robert Longo, Pat Steir, Dominique Blain, Vernon Fisher, Donald Sultan, John Chamberlain, Chuck Close, Deborah Butterfield, Louise Nevelson
Selected Works, Chuck Close
Cose Naturali: Italian Still Lifes from the 17th & 18th Centuries
New Paintings, Michael David
Swag, Angela Ellsworth
New Paintings & Collages, James Havard
New Landscapes, David Kessler
Retrospective, Terrence La Noue
Materia, Carrie Seid, Michael Bauermeister, Dale Chihuly, Michael Kessler, Matt Moulthrop, Philip Moulthrop, Kevin Irvin, John Nelson, Mark Rediske, John Rose, Bobby Silverman, Nancy Sansom Reynolds, Don West
Selected Works, Forrest Moses
Encaustic Works, Shigeru Oyatani
New Works, Patti Parsons
New Ceramic Paintings, Bobby Silverman
Steel Furniture, Thomas Tuberty
Terrain, Ellen Wagener
New Paintings, Hiro Yokose
Familiar Terrain, Diana Clauss
2003
Affordable Housing: Designing an American Asset (in conjunction with Stardust Center for Affordable Housing and the National Building Museum)
Rewind, Michael Anderson
Paintings & Monotypes, Will Berry
Cuba, Havana Interiors, Michael Eastman
I Could Hear the Wilderness Listen, Gary Komarin
Works on Paper, Martin Mull
Collages, Andrew Young
Bordering Gaze, Diana Clauss
2002
Data Streams, Mary Bates
Space, Cora Cohen
Contemporary Narratives, Radcliffe Bailey, Simon Casson, Lawrence Gipe, Maverick Gonzales, Julie Heffernan, John Walker, Carrie Mae Weems
Concentric Episodes, Kris Cox
The Cultural Desert (In conjunction with the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, SMoCA – the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art), John Buck, Alexander Calder, Jim Dine, Barbara Hepworth, Robert Longo, Louise Nevelson, Dennis Oppenheim, Lucas Samaras, Joel Shapiro, Frank Stella, Lynda Benglis, John Chamberlain, Vernon Fisher, Dan Flavin, Mel Kendrick, Maya Lin, Richard Long, Louise Nevelson, Claes Oldenburg, James Turrell
New Works, Michael David
New Sculpture & Paintings, Jim Dine
Selected Works, Julie Heffernan
Nocturne Series, Robert Kelly
Selected Works, Tom Ortega
New Paintings, Shigeru Oyatani
Signals, Matt Baumgartner, Diana Clauss, Tom Ortega, Ruth Pastine, Otto Rigan, Steve Rodin, Hiro Yokose
Portraits, Hiro Yokose
2001
Oil Paintings, John Alexander
Bronze Works of Art, Mary Bates
C-Print Photographs from the Satisfaction Series, Sara Carlson
New Paintings, Simon Casson
Silver Gelatin Prints & Site-specific Installation, Petah Coyne
Monuments to the Human Condition, Sculpture + Paintings, Jim Dine
Selected Works, Vernon Fisher
New Sculptures, Jun Kaneko
Embroidered Works, Angela Lim
New Works, Martin Mull
Selected Works, Tom Ortega
Works from 1943-1992, Judith Rothschild
Selected Works by Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol
New Paintings, Hiro Yokose
2000
Bronze Sculpture, Mary Bates
Social & Political History, Dominique Blain
Greek Goddesses, Simon Casson
New Works, Diana Clauss
New Paintings, Tony de los Reyes
Paintings (in conjunction with the Estate of Herbert Ferber and Knoedler & Company), Herbert Ferber
Numinous Duochrome, Ruth Pastine
Selected Works, Otto Rigan
New Sculpture, Tom Waldron
Small Encaustic Paintings, Hiro Yokose
1999
Selected Works, John Beerman
Epitome, Simon Casson
New Encaustic Paintings, Michael David
Paintings 1938 – 1973 (in conjunction with the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation and Knoedler Gallery), Adolph Gottlieb
Expedition Yellow Violet, Ruth Pastine
New Sculpture, Otto Rigan
1998
New Works, Sara Carlson
New Paintings, Simon Casson
New Paintings, Cora Cohen
MKMFSC, Kris Cox
Paintings, Helen Frankenthaler
New Ceramic Sculptures, Jun Kaneko
New Works, Martin Mull
Selected Works, Harvey Quaytman
New Paintings, Pat Steir
New Large Landscapes, Hiro Yokose
New Encaustic Paintings, Hiro Yokose
1997
New Paintings, Michael David
New Works, Robert Kelly
Detours & Destinations, Martin Mull
New Works, Tom Ortega
Works in Wax, Hiro Yokose
1996
Selected Works, Lee Friedlander
New Works, Martin Mull
New Works, Jennifer Bartlett, Vernon Fisher, and Martin Mull
New Works, William Christenberry, Axel Hütte, Andres Serrano
1993
Nature Takes a Leap, Emmi Whitehorse
1991
New Works, Hiro Yokose
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