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The Transfer

Michael Bell

The Transfer

Michael Bell
  • Date: c.2008; United States  
  • Style: Neo-Figurative Art, New Realism
  • Genre: allegorical painting
  • Media: oil, mixed technique, canvas
  • Dimensions: 152 x 152 cm
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In "Ticket to Ride" Michael Bell created a cinematic painting series as a journey through one woman’s harrowing search for redemption, only nothing inspires redemption quite like revenge.

"The Transfer" is the first of nine large-format mixed-media paintings that range from emotionally-driven portraits as allegories reminiscent of dramatic film-stills to dark, ambiguous hotel room scenes and metropolitan landscapes on 60" X 60" canvases overlaid with mixed-media subway maps painted into the background of each work. Bell’s narrative strategy is for the viewer to question how much of Ticket to Ride is just a dream, and how much is rooted in reality. Its major movement is the journey taken by an Italian Femme Fetale that begins on a New York City subway platform in Scene 1, "The Transfer" as she awaits her metaphorical “train” and her journey continues -- painting by painting -- like a roller coaster ride through her mind.

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