Precarious Paradise

A Curated Collection of Artwork

by Jessica Taylor Bellamy

Visual Art


 

 

Artist’s Statement

Jessica Taylor Bellamy is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, sculpture, and video exploring themes of utopia >< dystopia, human >< nature, fantasy >< reality, image >< text, and the collapsing of time. A native Angeleno, born and raised in Whittier to an Ashkenazi Jewish mother and an Afro-Cuban Jamaican father, Bellamy’s practice considers this particular familial history to address notions of home, homeland, and landscape. The artist’s work is rooted in her observations living at the edge of a precarious paradise, in a time of shifting ecological tensions.

 

 


Jessica Taylor Bellamy (b. 1992, Whittier, California) 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. Bellamy’s work has been featured in exhibitions with Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles / New York; UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles; GRIMM, New York; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; Make Room LA, Los Angeles; Superposition Gallery hosted at Ochi Aux, Los Angeles; and Lyles and King Gallery, New York. Bellamy is the recipient of artist grants from Los Angeles Lakers sponsored In the Paint Art Program 2024–25 and LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) Lighting Fund 2025. Bellamy lives and works in Los Angeles. Jessica Taylor Bellamy is represented by Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles / New York.

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