James Bellucci
Central Library Bubbler Room
August - September 2015
James Bellucci is an artist making digital drawings and photos and exploring new technologies. He received a BFA in photography from Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and has taught photography at SUNY Brockport, Monroe Community College, University of Notre Dame, and Frederick Community College.
During his residency, Bellucci led a workshop on diorama constructions using paper, cardboard, and other art materials to to construct and then photograph a scene and create an anecdote of participants’ favorite stories. Workshop attendees learned about scale, lighting, perspective, and storytelling.
In his ongoing body of work, Anecdotes, Bellucci constructs tableaus that communicate the idea of the constructed image, paralleling the anecdotal style of storytelling. Using lightweight materials such as paper, wire, found objects, and cardboard, the constructed quality of the tabletop sets reveals the embellishment of each story depicted, exercising his role as director for the viewer. Narratives are selected from his childhood and include passages from the Old and New Testaments, as well as scientific texts explored in adulthood.
Bellucci later exhibited with the Bubbler in 2017. Find more in the exhibition archive.
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