New Arrivals – Marc Bell Drawings
New Arrivals – Recent Drawings by Marc Bell
Lucy Honeychurch (Classic Uptight Pantaloons), Ink on Paper, 2012, 18 x 24 in.
Mr. Giant Stroller, Ink on Paper, 2012, 18 x 24 in.
Ornate Investment Banker, Ink on Paper, 2013, 18 x 24 in.
End of the Eath, Ink on Paper, 2005, 11 x 9 1/2 in.
Marc Bell was born in London, Ontario in 1971 and attended H. B. Beal Secondary School with Jason McLean. He was included in the Michael Gibson Gallery’s 2011 exhibition “Not Bad For London”. He has exhibited in solo shows in Paris, Amsterdam, New York and Vancouver. Recently his work was included in the group shows Walpurgis Afternoon at Lawndale Art Center (Houston,Texas) and La Migra! At Vice Mexico (Mexico City). Reviews of his work have appeared in the New York Times, LA Weekly, The Walrus and Globe and Mail. His work is in the Dakis Joannou Collection, Owens Art Gallery and Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery.
Drawn and Quarterly has published monographs of his recent art and comics work: Stroppy in 2015 and Hot Potatoe (sic) in 2009. He was the editor of Nog a Dod: Prehistoric Canadian Psychedoolia (Conundrum Press, 2006), a survey of contemporary self-published art booklets in Canada and the co-editor of Japanada, the 5th issue of The Ganzfeld (Picture Box, 2007).
Above: King Younge (FACSIMILE), 2004, Ink and Watercolour on Paper, 10 x 8 1/2 in.