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American artist
Alexandra Bell (born 1983) is an American multidisciplinary artist.
[1] She is best known for her series Counternarratives, large scale paste-ups of
New York Times articles edited to challenge the presumption of "objectivity" in news media.
[2] Using marginalia, annotation, redaction, and revisions to layout and images, Bell exposes racial and gender biases embedded in print news media.
[3]
Life and education
Bell was born and raised in Chicago.
[4] She cites visual artists such as
Glenn Ligon ,
Jenny Holzer , and Chilean artist
Alfredo Jaar as inspirations.
[5] Bell holds a Bachelor of Arts in interdisciplinary studies from the University of Chicago.
[6] She also received her master's degree from the
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2013.
[7]
Work and critical reception
Bell's work has appeared in major group and solo exhibitions across the United States, including the 2019 Whitney Biennial, which featured a newly commissioned series of prints titled No Humans Involved: After Sylvia Wynter , which looks at the
New York Daily News ’ reporting of the
Central Park Five case. Among other accolades, Bell received the 2018
International Center of Photography Infinity Award
[8] in the applied category and was a 2018
Open Society Soros Equality Fellow.
[9]
Exhibitions and installations
Solo
Atlanta Contemporary , Atlanta, Georgia, August 26 – December 17, 2017
[10]
Bennington College , Bennington, Vermont, October 10 – December 15, 2017
[11]
[12]
MoMA PS1 , Long Island City, New York, November 9 – December 11, 2017
[13]
Pomona College Museum of Art , Claremont, California, March 2 – May 13, 2018
[14]
Spencer Museum of Art
University of Kansas , Lawrence, Kansas, March 5 – April 8, 2018
[15]
Allen Memorial Art Museum and
Oberlin College Libraries, Oberlin, Ohio, October 30 – December 21, 2018
[16]
Group
An unassailable and monumental dignity, CONTACT Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September 21 – November 18, 2017
[17]
Lack of Location Is My Location,
Koenig & Clinton Gallery , Brooklyn, New York, November 3, 2017 – January 14, 2018, 2017
[18]
Hold These Truths,
The Nathan Cummings Foundation New York City, November 13, 2017 – March 14, 2018
[19]
Original Language,
Cue Foundation , New York City, September 6 – October 11, 2018
[20]
Punch (curated by
Nina Chanel Abney ),
Jeffrey Deitch , New York, September 15 – October 27, 2018
[21]
The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror In America (organized with the
Brooklyn Museum ,
Equal Justice Initiative , and
Google ), Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at
Haverford College , Haverford, Pennsylvania, October 26, 2018 – December 16, 2018
[22]
2019
Whitney Biennial (curated by
Rujeko Hockley and
Jane Panetta ),
Whitney Museum of American Art , New York, May 17 – September 22, 2019
[23]
Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power ,
MCA Chicago , Chicago, Illinois, October 26, 2019 – January 26, 2020
[24]
References
^ Hairston, Tahirah.
"Alexandra Bell Makes Art for the Fake-News Era" . The Cut . Retrieved 2020-01-20 .
^ Hairston, Tahirah.
"Alexandra Bell Makes Art for the Fake-News Era" . The Cut . Retrieved 2020-01-20 .
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"This Brooklyn Artist Is Taking On the Media" .
The Village Voice . 19 July 2017. Retrieved 2020-01-20 .
^ Stevenson, Sandra (2017-12-07).
"Analyzing Race and Gender Bias Amid All the News That's Fit to Print" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-01-20 .
^ St. Félix, Doreen (2017-07-31).
"The "Radical Edits" of Alexandra Bell" .
ISSN
0028-792X . Retrieved 2020-01-20 .
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"CV" . Alexandra Bell . Retrieved 2020-01-20 .
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"Alexandra Bell Uses Her Public Art to Expose Media Racism" . artnet News . 2017-06-01. Retrieved 2020-01-20 .
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"2018 Infinity Award: Applied — Alexandra Bell" . International Center of Photography . 2018-02-08. Retrieved 2020-03-07 .
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"Soros Equality Fellowship" . www.opensocietyfoundations.org . Retrieved 2020-03-07 .
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"Alexandra Bell|Atlanta Contemporary" . Atlanta Contemporary . Retrieved 2018-03-02 .
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"Alexandra Bell: Counternarratives | Bennington College" . www.bennington.edu . Retrieved 2018-03-02 .
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"Reading Critically: Alexandra Bell's "Counternarratives" | Art21 Magazine" . Art21 Magazine . Retrieved 2018-03-02 .
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"Alexandra Bell: Counternarratives | MoMA" . The Museum of Modern Art . Retrieved 2018-03-02 .
^ Bae, Justine (26 February 2018).
"Pomona College Museum of Art presents An Artist Talk and Installations by Alexandra Bell" (PDF) . Pomona College . Retrieved 5 April 2018 .
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"Alexandra Bell: Counternarratives | Spencer Museum of Art" . spencerart.ku.edu . 5 March 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-05 .
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"Counternarratives" . www2.oberlin.edu . Retrieved 2020-03-07 .
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"An unassailable and monumental dignity at CONTACT Gallery - Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival" . scotiabankcontactphoto.com . Retrieved 2018-03-02 .
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"Koenig & Clinton — Lack of Location Is My Location: Becca Albee, Eleana Antonaki, Kamrooz Aram, American Artist, Alexandra Bell, Lisa Corinne Davis, Torkwase Dyson, Andrea Geyer, Nicole Miller, Aliza Nisenbaum, Dawit L. Petros, Xaviera Simmons, William Villalongo" . koenigandclinton.com . Retrieved 2018-03-02 .
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"Hold These Truths | Nathan Cummings Foundation" . www.nathancummings.org . Retrieved 2018-03-02 .
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"Exhibitions" . CUE Art Foundation . Retrieved 2018-03-02 .
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"Punch, Curated by Nina Chanel Abney" . deitch.com . Retrieved 2020-03-07 .
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"The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America" . Retrieved 2020-03-07 .
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"Whitney Biennial 2019" . whitney.org .
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"Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power" . Retrieved 2020-03-07 .
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