June 2024: Meet the Artists
Andrea Ferrero, Daniela Gomez Paz, and Jessica Taylor Bellamy
This month’s residency is generously sponsored by Carlo and Micol Schejola Foundation
Andrea Ferrero
Through the study of monuments and architecture, Andrea’s work critically considers iconographies of power and our relationship to them. It intends to challenge the way in which ideas of power have been inserted into built space and embedded into collective consciousness, reflecting on dominant political ideologies and fantasizing with fictional scenarios and alternate narratives to official histories. Using archival material, imprints, molds and digital processes such as photogrammetry and 3d models, Andrea’s work unfolds in sculpture pieces, installations, Instagram filters and digital experiences. Food as spectacle, eating rituals as stagings of power, and their relationship to architecture and ceremonial aesthetics have framed her most recent body of work, in an effort to expose colonial legacies through strategies of humor and fiction. Operatic spectacles staged around food and feasting in European courts in the 1800s represented aggressive displays of political power and resources, similar to the power strategies used in monuments and ornamental architecture. This body of work mainly focuses on the recreation of pieces of ornamental architecture in different ingredients such as white and dark chocolate, sugar, gelatin, and cake, among others. Usually made from "permanent" materials, the pieces are recreated in edible ingredients destined to be destroyed and ruined.
Andrea Ferrero recently won the Salón ACME “Premio del Salón” 2023 Prize, was shortlisted for the Taoyuan International Art Prize 2023, and was awarded the Hopper Prize in 2021. She participated in the SOMA Academic Program in Mexico City and has been part of artist residencies at Hangar in Lisbon; Escuela FLORA at FLORA ars+natura, in Bogotá; and MANA Contemporary New Jersey. Andrea’s work has been shown in spaces such as TMOFA (Taoyuan), Museo Jumex (Mexico City), Salón ACME (Mexico City), ps122 Gallery (New York), and ICPNA (Lima). In 2024, Andrea will complete a residency at MASS MOCA in Massachussets, and present a solo exhibition at Swivel Gallery in New York.
Daniela Gomez Paz
Daniela Gomez Paz crafts relationships that deconstruct hierarchies of material and techniques across drawing, painting, weaving, embroidery, assemblage, and sculpture. Her process threads the body’s built memory as she inhabits its wholeness as a home, as a nest. Utilizing organic and synthetic material, she moves through imaginary eyelets that contemplate interrelation and permeability. She interweaves familial archives, the handmade, saberes (different ways of knowing), and language, with the fluidity of color, and living matter in various states of decay. Her tactile arrangements suspend movement in place, capturing moments in flux—documenting the undocumented.
Daniela received a BFA & BA from SUNY Purchase, a MAT from Queens College, and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. She is a recipient of the AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship at Pratt Institute (2024-2025) and was awarded the Elizabeth Canfield Hicks Award in drawing/painting from nature at Yale. Her most recent exhibitions include two solos, Tesando Agujeros at Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami (2023) and Corrientes Enmarañadas/ Streams of Entanglements at NOON Projects in Los Angeles (2024). She has participated in group exhibitions across NYC, Beijing, Milan, CDMX, and will be exhibiting her first solo at Lyles & King in New York (2025).
Jessica Taylor Bellamy
Jessica Taylor Bellamy is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, sculpture, and video exploring themes of utopia><dystopia, human><nature, fantasy><reality and the collapsing of time.
Jessica 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 Southern California in 2014. A recent solo exhibition Endnotes for Sunshine marked her debut with representing gallery Anat Ebgi. Bellamy’s work has also been featured in exhibitions with UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA; GRIMM, New York, NY; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Make Room LA, Los Angeles, CA; 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.
