Jessica Taylor Bellamy is an artist whose layered oil paintings blend aspects of her Ashkenazi Jewish and Afro-Cuban Jamaican heritage. Raised in the urban environment of Whittier, California, her work explores the complexities of home, nature, and societal boundaries. Utilizing personal artifacts such as photographs and receipts, she weaves together themes of utopia versus dystopia and reality versus fantasy. Her solo exhibition, Temperature Check, showcases how these themes intersect, particularly in the context of Southern California's fragile environment, emphasizing both its beauty and volatility.
Bellamy's observations are rooted in her experiences of the sprawling urban landscape of Los Angeles-a meeting of nature and civilization at the edge of a precarious paradise, formed by fire, drought, flood, and wind.
The title Temperature Change is also a double entendre, suggesting meteorological readings and a figurative expression used when measuring a group mood or opinion.
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