One Pool, Los Angeles

One Pool, Los Angeles was a two-year project that examined water reflections and how the images changed as the light changed across days and seasons. The series is about illusion. A newcomer, I felt like an alien in a mirage in Los Angeles. In this series, although LA-specific details like the palms and the colors locate me, the images are a multi-dimensional mirage. They portray an uncertain subterranean world that is a beautiful fantasy, yet transient. With this project, I embraced that illusion. To me, the images are symbolic of my experience of Los Angeles.

Bio
Robin Bell is a New York City-based artist whose projects are each careful studies of one place, often over several years. Whether her subjects are farmhouse windows, a Los Angeles pool or abandoned machinery, they are conversations about color, abstraction, and illusion. Bell's work has been exhibited in featured and group shows across the US and internationally, and is in an upcoming group show at the FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona. Her recent project, One Pool, Los Angeles, has won several awards and been profiled in publications including Frames, Fraction and Shadow & Light Magazines.