Katie Bell
Katie Bell
Workspace Program Resident 2023
In the Studio
At Dieu Donné, Bell created two-dimensional works that exist within a larger imagined world, and that seem to extend beyond the confines of the paper. In the wet studio, Bell embossed, embedded, or wet-collaged found forms into thick sheets of pulp, creating colored geometric layers and cutouts. Once dry, the artist continued experimenting with the boundaries of the paper, punching out holes or adding in pops of painted color–effectively adapting for and incorporating the paper works into her larger sculptural practice.
About the Artist
Katie Bell is an artist originally from Rockford, Illinois (b.1985). She received her BA from Knox College and her MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. Bell makes sculptural paintings based off architecture and found objects, fabricating forms that confuse naming. Using construction materials as her palette and woodworking tools as a form of mark making, she builds paintings and sculptures. Bell has shown her work at a variety of venues, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Smack Mellon, Locust Projects, and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. Her work has been written about in BOMB Magazine, Whitewall, Hyperallergic, Artnet, Sculpture Magazine, and Art in America. She was an artist in residence at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation’s Space Program and awarded a fellowship in painting by the New York Foundation for the Arts. Bell lives and works in New York, NY.
For more information, please visit her website.