For Jessica Taylor BellamyJuxtap positions, transparency and layers are a way of working that evokes its family history and notions from home and landscape. Bellamy, born in an Ashkenazi-Jewish mother and an Afro-Cuban Jamaican father, was raised in Whittier, just southeast of Los Angeles.
In glowing oil paintings, she draws from personal mushrooms such as photos, sales receptions and newspaper clippings to explore relationships between utopia and dystopia, people and nature, image and text, and fantasy and reality.
Bellamy portrays sunsets, landscapes, trees, urban streets, flora, animals and cloud formations in a kind of dreamy washing, adding patterns such as chain link fences, gates and lace curtains that suggest for boundaries. Horizontal landscapes covered with American Airlines tickets reflect Andy Warhol’s sides of the 60s of the 60s of Sas Airline tickets merged with flower motifs.
“Bellamy’s observations are rooted in her experiences of the vast urban landscape of Los Angeles – a meeting of nature and civilization on the edge of a precarious paradise, formed by fire, drought, flood and wind,” says a statement of a statement by Anat Ebgiwho represents the artist and opens her new solo exhibition, Temperature control.
A few works that are shown here, such as “did she listen it?”, Weeden in the show, which merges landscapes and atmospheric lighting effects with references to do -‘s self -culture, what is gender as “men’s work” and car and motor culture. The reception of the Home Depot, which usually uses the slogan “have we nailed it?”, Is combined with an image of a rearview mirror that is shown so close that it initially seems abstract.
Bellamy investigates the dualities and precarity of life in South California – a seemingly paradise that we have seen can be quickly destroyed by fire and drought. The title Temperature change Is also a double contributor, which suggests that meteorological measurements and a figurative expression are used in measuring a group mood or opinion. Through surrealistic images and ultrasounds of mass production and consumerism, the artist evokes a noir -mijr.
Temperature control Runs from 8 February to 22 March in Los Angeles. Find more about the artist website And Instagram.
