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Greetings!
 If you missed last month's premier of postmodern blues - now's your chance, Friday April 20th at Nox Contemporary, 440 so. 400 w. suite H, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. View over 46 portraits without faces an installation, and 16 + paintings and works on paper. John will be creating a live, on site, large-scale painting with Nox Contemporary's John Sproul and Jenevieve Hubbard.
Availabe at the opening; Bell's Fresh Oil! chapbook in which the artist has a revealing and humorous conversation with himself. Fresh Oil! was published as a companion to postmodern blues and serves both as a guide and artist statement about many of the works on display.
Who are you favorite writers? David Foster Wallace, Charles Bukowski, Edward Abby, Stephan Dunn, & Christopher Hitchens. Who is you favorite hero of fiction? Tyler Durden. Who are your heroes in real life? Anyone bold and brave enough to follow an intriguing light to its source regardless of popular opinion. What do you most dislike? Work that feels like work. How would you like to die? Smiling.
~ From Fresh Oil!
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Recent Press: postmodern blues |
The exhibition has received multiple press reviews from City Weekly's A&E writer Brian Staker and Gavin Sheehan of Gavin's Underground blog. Anne Cummings-Anderson of 15 Bytes (Shawn Rossiter's preeminent online art magazine) sat down with John recently in his studio to talk about his history, creative process, and why life as a ski bum was a "primer for the Betty Ford clinic". Continue reading for more on these press features. |
...his (Bell's) sojourn through the postmodern miasma takes him through the territory of personal history, artistic and cultural progenitors and even audience participation to locate the crux of what it means to be an artist. ~Brian Staker, City Weekly
>>>READ THE CITY WEEKLY ARTICLE
 | | postmodern blues install view of The Muse Asylum |
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 "Ultimately, my process is a product of the times. It's a cross-pollinated, hybrid, mashed-up culture we live in these days. The best of what I do holds a mirror up to that culture, so to me it always made perfect sense to adopt that ethos in my art. ~ John Bell, interview, Gavin's Underground
>>>READ THE INTERVIEW
... "The new collectors of contemporary work are a major factor in this equation -- without them, we are just entertaining ourselves and that is an unsustainable situation. ~ John Bell, interview, Gavin's Underground |
 | | photo Anne Cummings-Anderson |
"Bell lives this intuitive philosophy, channeling his feelings daily and incorporating them into his creative process, a very personal endeavor essential to his identity. "I make art for an audience of one, everyone else is a bonus." ~Anne Cummings-Anderson, John Bell 15 Bytes artist profile>>>READ THE PROFILE |
