Temma Bell: Then and Now surveys more than fifty years of painting rooted in lived experience — portraits of family and pets, farm animals, still lifes, and landscapes from the Catskills, New York City, Paris, and Reykjavík. Curated by her daughter Ulla Kjarval on the occasion of Bell's 80th birthday, the exhibition reflects a practice inseparable from family life — Bell is the daughter of painters Louisa Matthiasdottir and Leland Bell, and mother to four daughters and seven grandchildren. Painting, for Bell, has always been part of life rather than apart from it: "That's really what it is for me. It's about having a family and coming from a family."
