ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a multi-disciplinary artist who centers work around the concept of exploring the abstract. The idea of not having to interpret a defined reality in art has always inspired and led me to integrate abstract concepts to film projects, sculptural design, and fashion design. An experimental period allowed me to explore performance art and how the body can embody the most abstract ideas. Connecting to a higher sense of self, a shedding of layers, an awakening of the spirit, the body is the subject matter and means to communicating.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Maya Bentley was born Indiana in 1993 and received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute Chicago in 2017. She has exhibited in the US between the Midwest and east coast at small galleries, group shows, and fashion presentations. Influenced by the surrealist movement, her work centers around the concept of exploring the abstract within sculpture, fashion design, and movement of the body.
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