Dvorak Sec Contemporary is proud to present Still(s); the debut solo exhibition of New York artist Dana Bell in Europe.

Dana Bell's paintings illuminate great moments of 20th century cinema, selected with an eye towards classical sensibility, framed with geometric symmetry. From Fellini spectacles to little-known Noir gems, Bell spotlights films that have both strong aesthetic languages and nuanced psychological trends guiding the narrative. Seizing upon this psychology and using it as an apparatus of refining, Bell transforms these distinct, disparate achievements of cinematography. She distills film stills into a shared, formalistic, intentionally limited visual language in which the guiding psychology is both instrument and corpus.

For her exhibition 'Still(s)' at Dvorak Sec Contemporary, Dana Bell--armed with a formalist's vocabulary, a painfully bright palette, and a keen eye for the nuances of gesture--delves into cinema's rich history and emerges with a complex study of physicalized language, and a portal into human behavior itself.