Laura Bell

I often bury the elements I use as grounds—laser prints, found images—but I feel their pulse, the call-and-response with the paint. The picture plane is frequently in flux, fractured; images are generally a slow burn, not immediately decipherable but always the provocation for the brushstrokes around and over them. Always in view is that click of significance, when some thing becomes something entirely. My work has been shown in galleries in NYC, Provincetown, Berlin, and elsewhere, and I received a 2020 Bronx Council for the Arts painting grant and have been an artist-in-residence at the Millay Colony.