The Art Base is pleased to present Simplicity, a solo exhibition by Roaring Fork Valley–based artist and educator Annie Bell. Through her use of locally salvaged materials, Annie Bell transforms the overlooked and discarded into poetic, mixed-media works that explore sustainability, iteration, and renewal.  

Annie Bell’s practice grapples with sustainability as a core value. She volunteers at the local Cattle Creek Thrift Store and embraces an ethos of conservation and environmental consciousness. Her materials are repurposed, her process iterative and ongoing. In her words, the works are “sketches,” never fixed in conclusion. The very idea of an object’s lifespan is renounced: nothing is disposable or over. 

Her work draws from thrift store finds, repurposed packaging, and the detritus of single-use plastics, cardboards, and paper. Her art lives with constituent objects designed to be discarded. Annie subverts this brief existence, giving them new bodies that often resemble mammals taking first steps, orienting themselves toward a fragile new life.