bio —
Breslin Bell is an interdisciplinary visual artist working primarily in print, sculpture, text, and installation. Additionally, Bell is an educator and museum professional. She has exhibited widely since 2016 in a number of group exhibitions in London, Edinburgh, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, and Japan. Breslin Bell is a recipient of the American Cities Internship Program Award with Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop; MASS MoCA Artist-in-Residence; and Center for Contemporary Printmaking Artist-in-Residence. Bell earned her MFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her BA in Art History and Studio Art from Wellesley College.
statement —
Being an artist inhabiting a feminized body implies residing within a space of political, social, or economic marginality. My practice operates across intersections of feminisms. I aim at de-telling by way of drip, sap, mar, bleed, drain, smudge, and obscure. My process acts as an echo narrative searching for legibility. A task is repeated, patterned, and laborious. My making considers reproductive rights, body autonomy, public health, and gender-based aggression and violence—recently traversing the non-linear relationship / kinship between transfeminism and reproductive choice i.e. concerns around estrogen-related pills and surgeries. My work often explores environmental issues, womxn’s rights, and the intersections between. I’m interested in the complexities of a ‘mother earth,’ ‘eco-feminism,’ and ‘land / body art’ lens on feminized making.