Baker Artist Portfolios

Patrick Ryan Bell is a sculptor, teacher, writer, and gallery director based in Baltimore, MD. They have written for BMoreArt, Two Coats of Paint, and Whitehot Magazine; teach at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore School for the Arts, and Baltimore Clayworks; and are a founding member of Red Giant Gallery. They create entities that materialize their relationship to health and the anxieties that surround it with their latest works raising questions about medicine, the body as a site of mystery, as well as mal-adaptive and destructive self-soothing strategies.