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.



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.