Alexandra Bell: Artist Talk | Primetime

Event Description: Alexandra Bell presents a brief artist talk on the themes and unfolding process of her project Primetime, Bell’s most recent body of work and the artist’s current Recess Assembly gallery activation. Primetime explores the way in which news media informs stereotypes and messaging that surround issues of racism and violence.

Her gallery activation, Primetime, will create an evolving and multimedia body of work bridging the original definition of stereotype—a rigid and reproduced impression used for printing a text—with the contemporary notion of stereotyping—the subconscious belief that certain actions or behaviors of an individual define that of an entire group. Bell’s project will investigate what it means when the circulation of media narratives engenders the reinforcement and proliferation of stereotypes.

About the Artist: Alexandra Bell (b. 1983, Chicago, IL) is a multidisciplinary artist who investigates the complexities of narrative, information consumption, and perception. Utilizing various media, she deconstructs language and imagery to explore the tension between marginal experiences and dominant histories. Through investigative research, she considers the ways media frameworks construct memory and inform discursive practices around race, politics, and culture. Her work has been featured in recent exhibitions in venues including MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY, We Buy Gold, Brooklyn, Koenig & Clinton Gallery, Brooklyn, with a forthcoming group exhibition at Cue Art Foundation. Bell holds a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities from the University of Chicago and an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.