LAURA BELL
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
2023 Gallery artists group show/Madison Avenue Art Walk, selections from "The Corpses," Jennifer Baahng Gallery, NY
2023 "Pink," selections from "The Corpses," virtual exhibition, Jennifer Baahng Gallery, NY
2023 "Wild Muse," Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, in association with the Smithsonian Institution, Solomons, MD
2023 “Exquisite Codes,” World of Moco Gallery, Odetta Digital/SHIM Art Network, Bridgeport, CT
2023 “Synthetic Zero,” BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY
2023 “Entry Point,” Odetta Digital/SHIM Art Network, on Artsy
2022 "Exquisite Codes," Aqua Art Miami, Odetta Gallery/SHIM Art Network, Miami Beach, FL
2022 "Trash," Local Project, LIC, NY
2022 "Unleashed," AHA Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
2021 "Memento Mori," AHA Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Tiny Spoon, Issue 7, "Collaboration," selections from "The Corpses"
2021 "A View From the Easel," Hyperallergic feature on the "Pandemic Cemetery" series
2021 "Drawing Challenge XVIII," Jason McCoy Gallery, NYC
2021 "USPS Art Project," Greenly Art Gallery, Signal Hill, CA
2021 “Transcendence,” Local Project, LIC, NY
2020 “USPS Art Project,” Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA
2020 "In Between," Local Project, LIC, NY
2020 "Explore: Found Objects," selections from "The Corpses," Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2020 "Night and Day," Local Project, LIC, NY
2019 Otoliths, Spring issue, paintings, works on paper, selections from "The Corpses"
2018 Unlikely Stories, 20th-anniversary issue, selections from "The Corpses"
2018 "The Freak Show," Local Project, LIC, NY
2018 A5 Magazine, Portfolio 14, U.K., selections from "The Corpses"
2018 "Et Tu, Art Brute?" Andrew Edlin Gallery, NYC
2017 "Metro 31," City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2017 "Animalia," Local Project, LIC, NY
2017 "From Here to There," Camaradas El Barrio, Harlem, NY
2016 New England Review, Fall/Winter issue, painting “Flyway” appeared as the cover
2016 "International," Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ
2016 Shadowgraph Quarterly, selections from “The Corpses”
2016 “Materials,” selections from “The Corpses," Materials for the Arts, LIC, NY
2016 “The Food Show,” selections from “The Corpses," Local Project, LIC, NY
2016 "Recycled, Repurposed, Recovered," selections from “The Corpses," A.D. Gallery, University of North Carolina
2015 Offcourse Literary, selections from “The Corpses”
2015 Superstition Review, selections from “The Corpses”
2014 AMP Gallery, Summer Show, Provincetown, MA
2014 MadHat Lit, selections from “The Corpses”
2013 The Drunken Boat, selections from “The Corpses”
2013 “Big Queens Drawing Show," Jamaica Center for the Arts, Jamaica, NY
2011 Fogged Clarity Arts Review, selections from “The Corpses”
2011 Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
2010 “BYOA,” X Initiative, NYC
2010 “Disciplined Spontaneity,” Zone: Contemporary Art, NYC
2009 Governor’s Island Art Fair, NYC
2008 Governor’s Island Art Fair, NYC
2007 “Anonymous Drawings 6,” Blütenweiss, Berlin
2005 A.I.R. Biennial, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
2003 “Oil,” Lowe Gallery, NYC
2000 “Perimeters: Painting,” LICK Gallery, LIC, NY
AWARDS / OTHER
2020 "Bronx Recognizes Its Own" (BRIO) grant in painting, Bronx Council for the Arts
2016 WPKN radio, interviewed with poet Ian Ganassi by Richard Hill on collage collaboration “The Corpses” and publication of Ganassi's poetry collection Mean Numbers
2010 “Illuminating the Text,” gallery talk and poetry reading in conjunction with “Disciplined Spontaneity” exhibition, Zone: Contemporary Art, NYC
2010 Presentation on collage collaboration “The Corpses,” Educational Center for the Arts,
New Haven, CT
1995 Artist in residence, the Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
1994 Commission for Local 2110, installation commemorating 10 years of union organizing, Amalgamated Lithographers, NYC
EDUCATION
B.A., Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
IAN GANASSI
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Poems: Argotist Online (2023), Peripheries Journal (2023), Big City Lit (2023) First Literary Review East (2023. 2021, 2018, 2017), Offcourse (2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2013), Home Planet News (2023, 2022, 2021, 2017), Meniscus (2022, 2019), Survision, (2023), Book of Matches (2022), Otoliths (2021, 2019, 2017, 2016), BlazeVOX (2021, 2020, 2018), New American Writing (2021, 2020, 2018, 2012, 1991), Visitant (2020), Beyond Words (2020), Oddball Magazine (2020), Twisted Vine (2020), Glimpse (2020), The American Journal of Poetry (2020, 2018), Clockwise Cat (2019), AMP (2019), Stand Magazine (U.K.; 2018, 2015), De La Mancha (Spain; 2018), Lotus Eater (Italy; 2018), 2Bridges Review (2017), Past Simple (2016), The Yale Review (2016, 2000, 1994), China Grove (2015), Altered Scale (2014), The Moth (Ireland; 2014), Interim (2013), Warwick Review (U.K.; 2012), Map Literary (2012), Blackbox Manifold (U.K.; 2011), Trickhouse (2009), Found Poetry (2009), Elixir (2006), Caketrain (2006), The New Haven Advocate (2005), Ploughshares (2001, 1995), Poetry New York (1999, 1995, 1991), Denver Quarterly (1999, 1995, 1991, 1987), Verse (1998), American Letters & Commentary (1998, 1994), Pequod (1993, 1991)
China Grove Press
True For the Moment, a second book-length collection, was published by David Robert Books in June of 2023
By This Time, a third book-length collection, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2024.
New England Review published translations of Books 1 through 7 of Virgil’s Aeneid
between 2003 and 2016
Critical essays have appeared in Critical Flame (2016), Salamander (2007), Boulevard (2007), Octopus (2007, 2005), and American Letters & Commentary (2003)
HONORS
2005 Pushcart Prize nomination for poem “Blunt Trauma,” published in The Journal
2005 Grant-in-aid, Saint Botolph Club, Boston, for translation of Book 6 of Virgil’s Aeneid
1995 Writing residency, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
COLLABORATIVE COLLAGE: "THE CORPSES"
EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
2023 “Synthetic Zero,” BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY
2021 Tiny Spoon, Issue 7, "Collaboration"
2020 "Explore: Found Objects," Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2019 Otoliths, Spring issue
2018 "The Freak Show," Local Project, LIC, NY
2018 Unlikely Stories, 20th-anniversary issue
2018 A5 Magazine, Portfolio 14, U.K.
2018 "Et Tu, Art Brute?" Andrew Edlin Gallery, NYC
2017 "Metro 31," City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2017 "From Here to There," Camaradas El Barrio, Harlem, NY
2016 Shadowgraph Quarterly
2016 “Materials,” Materials for the Arts, LIC, NY
2016 “The Food Show,” Local Project, LIC, NY
2016 Koffee Art, New Haven, CT
2016 "Recycled, Repurposed, Recovered," A.D. Gallery, University of North Carolina
2015 OffcourseLiterary Journal
2015 Superstition Review
2014 AMP Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2014 MadHat Lit
2013 The Drunken Boat
2011 Fogged Clarity Arts Review
2011 Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
2010 “Disciplined Spontaneity,” Zone: Contemporary Art, NYC
READINGS AND TALKS
2018 Poetry reading as part of an exhibition of "The Corpses," Koffee Art, New Haven
2016 Poetry reading and book signing in conjunction with the publication of Mean Numbers, Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC
2016 WPKN radio, interview by Richard Hill on publication of Mean Numbers, poetry reading, and discussion of collage collaboration "The Corpses"
2016 New England Review, website interview on translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, Book 7,
and "The Corpses"
2014 Poetry reading as part of exhibition, AMP Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2010 “Illuminating the Text,” gallery talk and poetry reading in conjunction with “Disciplined Spontaneity” exhibition, Zone: Contemporary Art, NYC
2010 Presentation on “The Corpses,” Educational Center for the Arts, New Haven , CT
EXPERIENCE
1990–present: Poetry readings and collaborations with dancers, visual artists, and musicians
In New Haven, CT: Yale University; The Phoenix New Haven Poetry Series; Southern Connecticut State University; Educational Center for the Arts; Dancespace New Haven.
In New York: The State University of New York at Purchase; Cornelia Street Café
2009–2011 Instructor, “Collaborative Writing,” Educational Center for the Arts, New Haven
1990–2012 Percussionist/dance accompanist, band performances and Modern, Caribbean, and African dance classes
1995 Instructor, “Reading and Writing Contemporary Poetry,” Yale College Seminar, New Haven
1984–93 Editorial assistant, The Paris Review, NYC
EDUCATION
MFA in Poetry, City University of New York, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY. Studied with poets including John Ashbery and Ann Lauterbach, among others
BA, English, State University of New York, Empire State College, White Plains, NY