Bentley Gallery - Bentley Calverley
About Bentley Gallery - Bentley Calverley
In 1990, Bentley Calverley left her longtime position as a steel broker to start her eponymous art business, Bentley Gallery. Taking on a small group of regional artists, she built a jewel-like space on Marshall Way in Scottsdale and assembled a core of important artists, quickly building a curatorial reputation that’s respected in the national art landscape. Since then, shows at Bentley Gallery have ranged from Helen Frankenthaler’s bold abstractions and Pat Steir’s lush waterfall paintings, to Adolph Gottlieb’s historic Modernist works and John Sonsini’s straightforward portraits of Mexican day workers.
Then, nearly twenty years later in burgeoning downtown Phoenix, she opened an industrial warehouse gallery. Bentley Projects allowed for large and super large works of art such as Jennifer Bartlett’s house constructions, Jim Dine’s massive Venus de Milos, and Sir Anthony Caro’s sculptures (direct from Kenwood House in London) to come alive in a space like no other in the city.
This fall, Bentley Gallery will permanently relocate from Scottsdale to its Phoenix location at 215 E Grant Street. The gallery will kick off the season there with a November exhibition by world renowned sculptor, Jun Kaneko. After 22 years in Scottsdale, the move is bittersweet for Bentley Calverley, but she is emboldened by today’s technology-driven, global art market and sees a bright future ahead for the arts in Arizona.
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