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MICHELLE M. BELLICI

Lives and works in Northampton, MA, USA
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Michelle Bellici uses a cloudy but magnificent chiaroscuro to render the female Michelle M. Bellici was born and raised in Syracuse, New York.
body. Her work deals with sexuality, sensuality, identity and gender in an overt As a young girl Ms. Bellici used to retreat to her family’s basement storage
manner. As a female artist who paints and draws the female form she makes a unit that held her grandfather’s drawings books, maps and a copy of Gray’s
both powerful and beautiful artistic statement. Her women are seductive torsos Anatomy. She spent hours studying her grandfather’s work and absorbing
whose flesh assumes the shadowy lightness of her chosen media. Using both the anatomy of the human body. By the time she was 8 years old Ms. Bellici
paint and dry media she masters the soft gradients of flesh, and builds excitingly was replicating what she studied, drawing the inside and outside of the
llusion-filled spaces. As a woman painting women, she preempts the often-male human body in her 4th grade art class.
artist device of objectifying the feminine form. Her gave is inherently feminine Ms. Bellici has studied art at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
and more empathetic than objective in nature. She interprets the female form under the guidance and tutelage of the American painter, Richard Yarde.
as a mysterious labyrinth of light and shadow. Restless atmospheric pigment She has also studied at the Lorenzo de Medici School of Art in Florence,
defines the female body. Bellici portrays the nude female body as a vessel of Italy, where her 26-piece series, Vero Inizio, was born. Ms. Bellici makes
expression. The body appears liberated from inhibitions and stereotypes.It is her home in Northamption, Massachusetts. In October 2003, she married
a celebration of the art and beauty inherent in femininity. her partner, Kathy LeMay.

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