Bell's prints and book works are an extension of the themes explored in her large-scale installations. Over the past decade Bell has been involved in producing sculpture and site-specific installations that address the issues of time, place and memory. The locations for these works range from informal pedestrian street venues to formal museum gallery settings. Bell often implies the sexuality of space through the use of wall-papered environments and gendered objects. She is interested in creating an environment in which the physicality of space becomes a metaphor for the outside world and ultimately the threshold where memory oscillates between the past and the present.

"If we have retained an element of dream in our memories, if we have gone beyond merely assembling exact recollections, bit by bit the house that was lost in the mists of time will appear from out of the shadow."
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics Of Space

Biography

Roberley Bell spent her childhood in Latin America and Southeast Asia before attending the University of Massachusetts and Alfred University, New York. She received her M.F.A. from Alfred University in sculpture. Currently, Bell lives in a farming community in upstate New York and is represented by Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

Her work has been exhibited widely in both solo and group shows at venues such as Dieu Donne Gallery, New York, NY and State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. She has also completed site-specific public projects in Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Chicago, and New York.

In addition, Bell is the recipient of many grants and fellowships including a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Fellowship and a Fulbright to the Netherlands, as well as several artist residencies.