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     Dozier Bell's paintings and drawings address the cyclical nature of catastrophic events as part of the continuity of human experience.  The most recent work obliquely references historical plague outbreaks in Europe and the years of unusual weather patterns that preceded and followed them, which echo current predictions of the effects of climate change.  As a whole, the work explores  twentieth century versions of the twelfth century German concept of Heimsuchung, a term which has no precise equivalent in the English language.  Its original meaning of visitation by a God that knows exactly where one is at every moment of one's life gradually gave way to its use as a term for the singling out of a person or people for visitation by disasters such as plague, famine and war; and yet the term still encompasses these two extremes of human experience: everyday union with the divine, and the devastation and annihilation of the physical self and/or its environment.

            Bell is the recipient of several awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship as artist-in-residence at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany, two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants, and the Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant.  Residencies include the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, and the MacDowell Colony, among others.  She received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Maine College of Art in 1997.  Her work is included in numerous museum and corporate collections nationwide.  She is represented by the Danese Gallery in New York City.