David Lucas Bell
david@7l3art.com

I began doing art in the year 2000. In High school, I focused on “decisive moment” photography capturing the movement in a still image and the complexity that can become of a single moment or expression.

I began to take art more seriously in 2006 and traveled abroad to Florence, Italy where I studied at Santa Reperata School of Art and Design. While taking classes in architectural drawing, I became fascinated with the movement and fluidity of the sculptures from the early masters, especially the unfinished slave sculptures of Michelangelo. To see the contrast of the stone and how it was in its natural state and the extraction of matter to create such bliss was, in my mind what art was all about. I began to incorporate similar contrasts in my paintings, letting the canvas show through or having clean lines evolve into a squiggle.

After spending two years combining photography and painting, in 2008 I was accepted to Metafora, School of contemporary Art in Barcelona. I decided for a full year I was going stop painting, and focus my energy on sculpture and installation. I became interested in the idea of; by changing the function of an object does it remain the same object? Working mostly with wood and found objects Installation became the most appropriate way to express the ideas that lingered in my mind. By using found material, one can manipulate it to show what it once was and what it can still be. Growth of an object or a space, gives time something to dwell on.

Since Barcelona I have relocated to Los Angeles where I will continue to focus on Installation and sculpture at UCLA.