January 31-February 22, 2025
Opening reception on Friday, February 7, 2025; 5:30p-8p
Artist talk on Instagram Live: TBD
All artworks are for sale in person or online. See the online gallery to purchase through the Bells Gallery website.
Bells Gallery is honored to present a solo exhibition by Alabama-based artist Roscoe Hall–Erased to Rewrite. The exhibition will be on view from January 31 to February 22, 2025.
Erased to Rewrite delves into the complexity of American life, using vibrant palettes to symbolize hope amidst challenges. Through the placement of figures, abstract shapes, and thick textures, the works embody the tension between problems faced and the resilience to overcome them. This series captures shared moments and memories familiar to many Americans, aiming to rewrite and reframe events that went wrong.
Roscoe Hall is an artist—creative and culinary—with an M.F.A. in Art History from Savannah College of Art and Design. A truth-teller in pigment, Hall works across media from food to paint and beyond to call into question, and challenge, previously unexamined histories of place, race, and space. Hall’s works nod toward his artistic predecessors—Romare Bearden, Kara Walker, Purvis Young, and more—in fractured narratives of identity, moments of unexplored history, and tales of mortality. Relevant and irreverent, Hall’s paintings are freeze-frame, front-page illustrations of personal reflection, they are confronting without necessarily being confrontational. They’re referential as much as they are reverential. And they’re clearly meditations on his Black experience.
Roscoe Hall is a painter living and working in Birmingham, Alabama. He received his B.F.A. in photography from the University of San Diego and his M.A. from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Hall’s works have been exhibited at the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum, Savannah, GA; Graeter Art Gallery, Portland, OR; Lowe Mill Gallery, Huntsville, AL; the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA), Birmingham, AL; and the Dallas Art Fair (2021, 2022). In 2022, Hall was awarded the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant for painting.