Grace Bentley-Scheck was born in Troy, New York and now lives in Narragansett, Rhode Island where she maintains her studio, Sassafras Press.  She holds BFA and MFA degrees from the State University of  New York at Alfred University.  Her work has been exhibited in the United States, Poland, Germany, Austria, Japan, Great Britain, Ireland, the Czech Republic, and Australia and is included in many private and public collections including The Portland Art Museum, Oregon, the Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee, and the Newport Art Museum, RI.

Statement: The plates from which my works are printed are built up in layers, and my subjects are layered by time, weather and human intervention.   In choosing images, I am interested in urban spaces that show signs of transition through time and social history.  My first perception is the geometry of the three dimensional space, and that geometry becomes the structure upon which the composition is built. When the collagraph is complete, I adhere silk organza to the plate and paint on it with acrylic medium to produce values.

Contact: gbentleyscheck@verizon.net