| About the Artist: |
Sherry Smith Bell creates prints of houses, barns, and archetypal shapes on plates of high-impact plastic. Her latest drypoint prints are from a series of visual phototypic houses based on personalized architecture. The plates are cut to delineate the visual essence of structure, using the tools of the printmaker: line, tone, color, ink, shape, embossment, press, and handmade paper. Her works are represented in many permanent and private collections.
Ms. Bell graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree in printmaking and drawing from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She founded the printmaking department at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto, California, and currently is the founding director of the Lafayette Printmaking Workshop, and Blue Sky Press, an experimental artists' book press. She is past president of the California Society of Printmakers, and is a partner in Bell Curtis Fine Art.
"My visual ideas use objects such as doors, windows and houses as metaphors for change. The emotional states of solitude, expansiveness, peace, and serenity are evoked by architectural images. These images deal with change as the only constant in perception and in art." |
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