Photo by Ming Wu of www.photomusic.com
Jessica Bell's show at the Ottawa Art Gallery was a decisive and what appeared to be a deliberate departure from her early work that had gained the artist a great deal of popularity early in her career- I was lucky enough to have a sneak peak of this transformation back in September 2014 when I interviewed her for Herd Magazine's Issue 07. Bell is thoughtful, careful, and obsessive in her practice; her compulsion to push her concepts is evident in this show named All things Being Equal and it comes to no surprise to me that collectors have their eye on her.
She has since left Ottawa after completing her MFA and returned to Vancouver, BC where I am sure we will be seeing more trans-formative and transcendent work coming out of her studio. www.jessicabell.ca