John Bell Rush
(b. 1999, South Orange, New Jersey)

John Bell Rush is a lens-based artist working with photography, video, sculpture, and text.

They explore modes of perception characterized by ephemerality, luminosity, absence and desire.

Group show, One, 2026


Personals, 2025


Stills, 2025



Unsteady Foundation
, 2023


  • Middletown, CT

  Primary materials: newsprint, a table found on Facebook Marketplace modified into a light-box, transparency paper, video projection, audio narration, and digital images.

Centered on a short story. A narrator goes to a small liberal arts school, waiting for a stranger they met through email, the waiting taking place in an abandoned art center.



Stills,
2022, 2021




35mm,
2021, 2022


email: johnbellrush@gmail.com
ig: @johnbellrush