Jessica Taylor Bellamy Afterimage (butterfly), 2023 (detail)
About
Jessica Taylor Bellamy is an artist of juxtapositions: image and text, abstraction and figuration, handmade and mass produced, reality and fantasy, sunshine and noir. A native Angeleno, born and raised in Whittier to an Ashkenazi Jewish mother and an Afro-Cuban father, Bellamy’s practice considers this particular familial history to address notions of home, homeland, and landscape. The artist’s work is rooted in her observations living at the edge of a precarious paradise of shifting ecological tensions.
Jessica Taylor Bellamy (b. 1992, Whittier, CA) received an MFA from the Roski School of Art at the University of Southern California in 2022 and a BA in Political Science from the University of California in 2014. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA; WOAW Gallery Hong Kong and Make Room LA; Superposition Gallery hosted at Ochi Aux, Los Angeles, CA; and Lyles and King Gallery, New York, NY. Bellamy lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Los Angeles is a city of paradoxes, where the fantasy and glamor of Hollywood often overshadows the grimy reality of daily life. Artist Jessica Taylor Bellamy, who grew up in Los Angeles, isn’t interested in the public’s obsession with celebrity. Instead, she tunes into the ordinariness of everyday occurrences and captures the strange truth of L.A.'s many contradictions. — Sahir Ahmed
Jessica Taylor Bellamy and Suzanne Lacy Channel the Topography of Los Angeles
Ahead of Jessica Taylor Bellamy’s first solo show, the emerging painter and multidisciplinary artist connects with her friend and mentor, the artist Suzanne Lacy, for a conversation about archiving the city, social practice, and car culture. — Annie Lyall Slaughter
Exploring Identity Through Place: Artist Jessica Taylor Bellamy’s Love Letter To L.A.
"I’m fascinated by the coupling of objects from the natural and industrialized worlds. I’m looking for ways to address a seemingly impossible situation in which nature is trapped by our objectification and commodification and has no way of escaping destruction."
