McKayla Mae Bensheimer’s work engages ambiguity and color with time, place, and the connections between humanity and the natural world.

Bensheimer uses a variety of printmaking methods including monotype, woodcut, and intaglio to create scenes that evoke a mood and capture her experience of a place.  Her work is rooted in film and street photography and both are a part of her process and sources of inspiration. 

Bensheimer’s current work dives deep into color harmony and the monotype as a way of expressing the world around her. She is especially interested in creating multimedia works that combine monotypes, oil paint and pastel, and charcoal. This medium allows Bensheimer to work quickly and intuitively. She combines the graphic aesthetic of print, the expressive brushstrokes and nuanced colors of painting, and the honest marks of the drawn line.

Bensheimer graduated from Herron School of Art and Design with her BFA in Sculpture and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Connecticut.

She has shown her work in the US and UK. She has exhibited at the William Benton Museum of Art, Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Gallery, and the Indianapolis Art Center, among others.