pentimenti gallery

Artists: A - G: Roberley Bell

Roberley Bell's sculptures of pigmented fiberglass and foam with mixed media, inflatable, birds and preserved butterflies merge reality with the imaginative. She examines ideas related to the built environment exploring the relationship between the man made and the natural in landscape focusing on the artifice of nature.

Roberley Bell holds a MFA in Sculpture from the State University of New York at Alfred and studied at the University of Massachusetts. Bell is the recipient of many grants and fellowships including two from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Pollock Krasner Fellowship, a Fulbright to the Netherlands and several residency awards. Bell's work has been exhibited in both one person and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally: the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; Dieu Donne Gallery, NYC; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Fassbender-Stevens Gallery, Chicago; Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn; Paul Petro Gallery, Toronto and several Art Fairs. Bell has completed public site projects in Pittsburgh, Baltimore and New York.

20 x 32 x 15 inchesPlaster, expanded foam plastic and preserved butterflies2008
   
16.5 x 18 x 7 inchesCast foam with dyed plastic, rubber and flocking covered with plastic flowers and novelty birds2006
   
8 x 8 x 5 inchesFoam artificial moss, artificial flowers, bird and butterflies2008
     
  
10 x 16 x 5 inchesFoam artificial moss, artificial flowers and butterflies2008
   
12 x 16 x 10 inchesFoam artificial moss, artificial flowers, bird and butterflies2008
   
     
  
25 x 16 x 10 inchesCast aqua resin dyed plastic with plastic flowers, novelty bird and flocked fruit2006
   
23 x 6 x 17 inchesCast foam with dyed plastic, rubber and flocking covered with plastic flowers and novelty birds