“Sharon Bell has been making serious delicate collages of spellbinding composition forever,” noted Mat Gleason, who included her his 2011 “Tel-Art-Phone” show. Writing in Visions Art Quarterly, Brian Butler observed, “The power of the small, of the intimate, contrasts yet is infused with the heroic scale of Abstract Expressionism. In looking at Bell’s work we contemplate the strange idea that it can now be heroic to do small work.”

An L.A. native, she holds a BA in Painting/Sculpture/Graphic Arts from UCLA and an MFA in Painting from Claremont Graduate University, and also studied at Art Center College of Design. The Nevada Museum of Art hosted a solo exhibit of her gouache paintings in 2010. Her work in various media has been seen in group shows at Groundspace Project, PØST, Louis Stern, Couturier, Kohn/Turner, Turner/Krull, Jan Baum, Zero One and Ruth Bachofner galleries, as well as the Palm Springs Art Museum and Long Beach and Los Angeles city colleges.