Keith W. Bentley

About the Artist

Keith W. Bentley’s sculptures are uncanny, strange classical statuettes through material intervention.  Bentley finds his inspiration somewhere in-between the canon of sculptural form and materials drawn from his quotidian experience: rubber, household items, concrete, hair. The resulting works force the viewer to question value hierarchies of art and materials. The identities of Bentley’s forms never settle, giving rise to something different, something unrecognizable, a new area of representation. Bentley’s works have been exhibited throughout North America, including the Museum of and Design in New York, the Delaware Art Museum, as well numerous International art fairs through private galleries representing his work both in Canada and the US. Keith has also gained much recognition through publications around the globe. Some of these include the New York Times (USA) , New Yorker Magazine (USA) , Sculpture Magazine (USA), Globe and Mail (Canada), VECO (China) and NuktaArt (Pakistan)  Born in Burlington, Vermont, Bentley was raised on a small farm across the border in New Brunswick, Canada and currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland.