Katie Bell's ARENA featured in Cultybytes: "Katie Bell Brings Both Logic and Chance to her Playful “ARENA” by Annabel Keenna.
"Bell’s first show with Spencer Brownstone Gallery, “ARENA” brings together an array of materials and shapes, both found and fabricated. Though her background is in painting, she has shifted to sculpture in her recent works. Scattered throughout the gallery are classical columns rendered in crisp, modern materials like cabinet veneers that recall the Postmodern designs of Ettore Sottsass and the Memphis group. While a nod to the Postmodern masters, Bell’s works abandon bright colors and instead adopt overall pale, soft hues punctuated by the occasional dark blue, red, and green. The result is a serene homage to design from antiquity to the contemporary world."
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