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Artist Statement:
My art is designed, in
an abstract way, to examine
social structures, and those
who struggle within them,
including myself, to the
critical eye of the outsider.
A constant in my art has been
the importance of circles—be
they mandalas, the circle of
life, or portholes through
which we see both others and
our inner selves. During the
last 2 years, I have been
experimenting with the
properties of modern
materials, such as plastic,
acetate, polycarbonate, Mylar,
and glass, to create optical
effects. My art has also
acquired sculptural qualities.
I have been working
exclusively on
three-dimensional pieces—maybe
only an inch or two
thick—using Mylar and acetate
to create layers within the
internal space. The use of
these transparencies and 3D
technique has suited my
purposes perfectly. I subject
them to various conditions and
elements to give them just the
effect I am looking for. I
create worlds where the viewer
is allowed to see some things
clearly, some things opaquely.
But all things seen are
intended to reflect an outer
and inner world of
psychological stress,
fragility and dislocation. I
have come to recognize that my
art is tending more and more
to show the...
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Artist Exhibitions:
*Mexiacan Cultural Institue.
"The Immigration"
XVI Iberoamerican art salon
*Nevin Kelly Gallery"
Third Annual Attainable Art.
"Water Gate Gallery"
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latest
*Nevin kelly
Color transparencies extended.
http://
nevinkellygallery.blogspot.com/
*9x10 WW Parker Gallery.
WPA/Corcoran
*Soho Myriad
Susan Komen Homage. Atlanta.
GA...
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Artist Galleries:
Nevin Kelly gallery. DC
Soho Myriad. Atlanta.
Winvian. Connecticut.
United Creators.NYC...
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Artist Reviews:
Nevin Kelly Gallery Blog
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Joan Belmar Opens Exhibition
Chilean-born local artist Joan
Belmar opens his exhibition
"Color Transparencies" with a
reception at the gallery
tomorrow night (Thursday, May
24) from 6 until 9 p.m. Belmar
creates sculptural paintings
out of strips of painted
Mylar, ...
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J. Belmar Biography:
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Belmar, born in 1970, grew up 2 hours south of Santiago, Chile. He got his degree in graphic design at the Unitvesity Catolica de Chile (DUOC) and, after graduating, left Chile for Ibiza, Spain, at the age of 24. He began painting professionally in Spain, using the Catalan “Joan” for his first name John. He came to Washington, D.C. four years later in 1999, and was granted permantent residency in the U.S. based on extraordinary artistic merit in 2003.
The Lyrical Mylar constructions of Chilean born, Washington based artist Joan Belmar.
In his recent work he has created a unique technique of 3-D painting, which combines his former painting and collage techniques with painted and untreated Mylar and acetate strips in circles and curvilinear shapes placed perpendicular to a painted background and then covered again (not always entirely) with a lightly frosted mylar that produces changes in transparency as light and the viewer move in relation to the work. This new work has attracted the attention of many art consultants and curators and collectors in DC: he has been asked to exhibit in WPAC venues, has contributed successfully in many charitable art auctions, is included in the DC art bank and is his work is part of the permanent collection in The Wilson Building.
Belmar's translucent sculptures are in the tradition of the abstract wooden boxes created 50 years ago by Louise Nevelson, yet completely fresh and original in their use of color and materials to achieve an almost shimmering effect.
Although Belmar's new work is still relatively unknown in Washington, he was recently nominated by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities as finalist for its prestigious Outstanding Emerging Artist of the Year Award , to be presented by Mayor Adrian Fenty on March 19th at the Kennedy Center.
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