Patrick Bell is a sculptor from Pittsburgh, PA who currently teaches at MICA, the Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore School for the Arts, and Baltimore Clayworks. Their latest works raise questions about mental illness, identity, medicine as well as mal-adaptive and destructive self-soothing strategies.

Their work has been shown in galleries across the country including the American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pamona, CA; SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC, NY; Morean Center for Clay, St. Petersburg, FL; Rhizome, Washington, DC; and Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD.

Artist Statement:

I create entities that materialize my relationship to health and the anxieties that surround it. Illness, including persistent struggle with identity and body dysmorphia, as well as maladaptive and destructive self-soothing strategies, manifests itself in my art as metaphysical and anatomical explorations. Fingers, organs, torsos, and other locations both inside and outside the human body become symbolic representations of sensations and moments.