Graduate Student, Kent State University

Ceramics

Title of Exhibition: Frankly

Image for post — Cowboy Bill Rides Herd on the Range of Consciousness

Artist Statement
Bodies, flayed like frogs in a high school science class, are my exploration responses to my own anxieties and fears about my body and health. Physically embodying sharp, anomalous, and sporadic pain, my work exists between a measured scientific inquiry and a chaotic, manic probe of human anatomy.

My current body of work dissects human forms, allowing me to further understand the bodily systems within them. By intervening on the congruity of figures, I reveal intestinal, arterial, and other biomorphic forms that exist in a state of tension and disorder. Bodies, flayed like frogs in a high school science class, are my exploration responses to my own anxieties and fears about my body and health. Physically embodying sharp, anomalous, and sporadic pain, my work exists between a measured scientific inquiry and a chaotic, manic probe of human anatomy. These bodies exist incompletely with their viscera missing or entirely separated, either discarded or selected for further survey.

Left: It All Works Like a Hungry Dog. Middle: In a Sentimental Mood. Right: Road to Nowhere.

Left: Heaven’s Vault Should Crack. Middle: Untitled. Right: a boundary, an interior, an exterior.

Left: Heart Cooks Brain _ Mice Eat Cheese. Right: Untitled.

For more of Patrick’s work:

https://patbellstudio.com/
Instagram: @patbellart
Facebook: @patrick.bell.7503

Final Studies are in partnership with The University of Akron and are made possible with support from Fifth Third Bank and the Robert O. and Annamae Orr Family Foundation.