A sequence of work exploring the transient nature of our constructed setting by artist Kevin Bell. Bell at the moment teaches artwork on the College of Montana. His personal work typically investigates modern landscapes and the way they mirror shifting cultural values and narratives. “Western (re)Imaginative and prescient” sees Bell selecting to color in a means that conveys shifting dynamics and the sense that issues “will look completely different tomorrow”:
“I’ve chosen to color many parts incompletely, in fragmented splatters, drips, and glazes to emphasise their lack of solidity and definitiveness. From these fragments, our cultural wants and needs are sometimes revealed: motion, disposability, comfort. Whereas not majestic or inherently aesthetic, I attempt to paint these banal locations with a level of sympathy. In some sense, it’s an try to attempt to love this unusual world we’ve got created. The views in these work have been chosen as a result of they’ve historic roots. All areas have been described in Nineteenth-century journals by European American settlers relocating to western North America. I revisit these areas to find what they imply to us now, and, for higher or worse, glimpse what got here earlier than. Textual content from these journals could be discovered on my web site.”
Kevin Bell’s mission is on show at A-Gallery in Seattle and runs till January 3, 2026.
