Thank you I have posted some artwork. For any others pls see my site. I'm moving in between Asia and Europe and Canada a lot these days painting and showing. Cheers
If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
Conceptual, Painting
About my artwork
From Gina Fairley
(Freelance writer, Regional Contributing Editor, Asian Art News+World Sculpture News)
Lori-Ann Bellissimo’s world is an abstraction that sits outside definitions of time and place, a reconfigured centrality if you like, that locates the work within a universal dimension. In a definitive sense these paintings are at odds with mainstream American modernism and its lineage of artists who have worked against the conventions of the paintings of Frank Stella, Jasper John and Mark Rothko. She does not seek to reinvent their formal language but rather chooses to twist and translate it as if it were an available tool. Bellissimo pits intuition over convention. Her fiery engagement with the tropical landscape of Malaysia melds journeys, memories and histories with a cathartic honesty.
While Bellissimo’s surfaces capture our immediate interest, it is the architecture of her paintings that is most remarkable as collaged fragments and soft pencil lines are caught within crystalline layers of resins. It has been said that Bellissimo pitches colour against depth. Bellissimo’s works are intellectually searching and solid, yet their physical presence is apparently weightless. Brushing ones eyes across this body of paintings we are awash with stimulation – seduction – permitted to dream amidst the stars. Such vulnerability of letting go is indeed earned.
Several years of making all sort of plans of revenge to the ex-husband for having sexually abused our son and subsequently trying to heal spiritually and emotionally by attempting to forgive in my heart with aim to free myself have resulted in an silent talk with God that night. I must say that my previous communication to the Almighty during that years were filled with accusation. I have been arguing with Him all the time. Why would He keep torturing and putting me in a really bad situation…See More