ABOUT
Mary Stengel Bentley is a Nashville-based artist working at the intersection of action painting and hard-edge abstraction. Her practice explores the tension between gestural mark-making and formal restraint, where expressive movement is counterbalanced by clarity of line and shape.
Informed by both the structures and irregularities of the natural world, her work translates organic rhythms into composed visual systems. The result is a body of work that oscillates between spontaneity and control - embracing both the unpredictable and the intentional.
Bentley’s multidisciplinary practice spans painting, works on paper, and large-scale mural installations.
Photograph by Laura Schneider