As seen on Arizona Republic website in March 2008:
Tour of Bentley Projects 22,000 sq ft art gallery and private event space.

Take Tour Now

Bentley Projects will be open Sunday March 9th from 12-6pm for Downtown Phoenix's anual Art Detour. Currently on view:

Internationally renowned Pat Steir's site-specific installation:

Tucson based artist Carrie Seid's Emergent Features:

Please contact Bentley Projects at 602.340.9200 for further information.

Internationally renowned artist Pat Steir has brought her artistic vision to life in large scale through a site-specific installation now on view at Bentley Projects.

Best known for her "waterfall" series, her work is in the permanent collections of museums worldwide including the Phoenix Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Tate Gallery in London.

Bentley Projects in downtown Phoenix is open Tuesday through Saturday, 9am to 5pm. The installation will be on view through the end of April.

Need a break from the hustle and bustle of the BIG game?

Bentley Projects, an art gallery set in a 22,000 sq ft warehouse space in downtown Phoenix, exhibits contemporary painting, sculpture, photography and video, as well as installation and site-specific works, by internationally recognized and mid-career artists.

Please join us this weekend:

Friday, 9am to 5pm.

First Friday Art Walk, 6pm to 9pm.

Saturday, 9am to 5pm.

Closed Sundays & Mondays.

Bentley Projects, 215 E. Grant St, Phoenix
602.340.9200 bentleyprojects.com

After Rembrandt, 2006, 5024 spools of thread and optical glass, h 96" w 100" d 60", edition 1 of 3

Interested in the links between art, science, and technology through the ages, New York artist Devorah Sperber deconstructs familiar images to address the way the brain processes visual information versus the way we think we see. "As a visual artist," she says, "I cannot think of a topic more stimulating and yet so basic than the act of seeing - how the human brain makes sense of the visual world."

Using ordinary spools of thread, Sperber creates pixilated, inverted images of historic masterpieces, which appear as colorful abstractions to the naked eye. The thread spools are hung upside down in reference to the fact that the lens of the eye projects an inverted image of the world onto the retina, which is corrected by the brain. A clear acrylic sphere, positioned in front of each work, functions like the human eye and brain, not only inverting but also focusing the image so that it appears as a sharp, faithful, right-side-up reproduction of the famous painting.

The original exhibition was co-organized by The Brooklyn Museum and will travel to MASS MoCA, Boise Art Museum, and Knoxville Museum of Art.

December 7-January 31st, Bentley Projects, Phoenix
Opening Reception: Friday, December 7th, 6-9pm

In Tipping Point, Bay Area artist Cynthia Ona Innis investigates forms under transformation in a series of new work. The subject matter aims to expose the transitional moment of exchanges as forms cluster and morph, creating new forms enmasse, in essence - the tipping point.

Visually, Innis's layered work is full of contrasting ideas and materials inspired by her past experiences and interest in the growth process. Surface and texture become key elements in Cynthia's work, as she pairs contrasting fabrics such as satin, silk and velvet on canvas. Cynthia portrays abstract interpretations of stages through paintings full o f soothing natural tones of greens, soft browns and hearty reds interrupted by lines of movement, seemingly life itself.

Innis's paintings can be seen in the permanent collections of the San Jose Museum of Art, Berkely Art Museum, Microsoft Collection, and Capital Group Collection. She is currently teaching at the University of California Berkely. Tipping Point is on view through the end of the month.

Bentley Projects, 215 E. Grant Street, Phoenix, AZ 85034, 602.340.9200, bentleyprojects.com, Tuesday through Saturday 9am to 5pm.

Bentley Projects will be open for First Friday Art Walk on October 4th from 6 to 9 pm for the opening of John Monti's site-specific installation. The artist will be present.

John Monti’s high-spirited, site-specific installation will be on view at Bentley Projects expansive exhibition space during the months of October and November. The New York based artist heads the sculpture department at Pratt University and will bring a unique exploration of installation art to the Valley.

Over a two-week period, Pat Steir's artistic vision will come to life in grand scale as the artist will be installing new site-specific work at Bentley Projects in February 2008. More details to come.