![]() ![]() ![]() He studied art at several institutions including: Massachusetts College of Art Humboldt State University where he received an MA degree and University of California Santa Barbara where he received an MFA.Ī very prolific artist, Bellacera exhibits throughout the United States and his work can be seen in many private and corporate collections as well as public institutions. In this way, through painting or sculpture, the mystery and awe of discovery and creation is continuously renewed.” The most profound artistic influences on Bellacera's work have been that of JMW Turner's emotional and atmospheric seascapes from the early 19th century Kandinsky's early 20th century spiritual abstract improvisations and the recent work of James Turrell, a Southwest installation artist who works with light.īorn and raised in Northern California, Joseph has also lived in Montana, Oklahoma, and New York. Bellacera comments, “I use the alchemy of color and light to create the experience of seeing something, as if for the first time, before we define, name and categorize it. In effect, seeing the everyday world in extraordinary ways. In his luminous paintings radiant forms emerge and dissolve to stimulate experiences of connectedness and the transcendence of limited perception. This pertains to the vastness of nature as it relates to the landscape and its underlying macro and micro configurations. His primary subject matter is the perception of space, light and patterning. Nature and luminosity inspire the work of Joseph Bellacera.
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