Gallery
Sherri Belassen, Carlisle Burch and Gino Belassen
BELHAUS is an international contemporary art gallery based in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Since its founding in 2018, the gallery has assembled a distinct roster of established and emerging artists in the Arizona desert and beyond. As an independent, artist-run program, BELHAUS is committed to the discovery of original work and cultivating meaningful connections among artists, collectors, and everyone in between.
Artists
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Sherri Belassen credits her inspiration in design and composition to flights she took with her father in their two-seater airplane growing up. The patterns, colors, and blocks of color seen from above informed her later aesthetic, and are reflected in her paintings. Belassen’s work is distinguished by an extensive combination of underpainting, layering, and scratching of the surface, showing a history of hand and a yearning for more.
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Carlisle Burch is a visual artist based in Phoenix, Arizona, whose work draws on the surreal beauty of California’s Mojave Desert. Influenced by the visual language of mid-century cartoons and the harsh realities of forgotten landscapes, she explores the tensions that exist between humor and dread, pleasure and deterioration. Her fluid lines and recurring characters investigate the gaps in our human perception and subtly address the illusions we construct, creating images that feel familiar, yet quietly unsettling.
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Deriving from an affinity for minimalism and abstraction, Belassen echoes a process he refers to as subtle over sound. This self-coined concept references the intensive and chaotic underpainting process inherent in his work, while subsequently hinting at his desire to subtly communicate a story, thought, or feeling. Deceptive in their simplicity, his paintings convey depths of meaning through abstract subject(s) paired with playfully handwritten words, either painted on or scratched-through a quick-drying, acrylic surface.
In 2020, the “Essentials” Lists were born. What originally began as text-based, oil pastel works on paper literally listing out items “necessary” to quarantine, quickly evolved into something more than that. Realizing the storytelling potential of a string of cleverly crafted words — whether promiscuous, tongue-in-cheek, “normal”, in French, struck-thru, or just seemingly nonsensical — Belassen found his voice, while still leaving room for mystery. Decode the lists, and you’ll discover inside jokes, double-entendres, and deeper meanings in a series that presents as poetic as it does artful, as curated as it does a random train of thought.
His original paintings, and works on paper, are in private collections across the United States, Mexico, Europe, the United Kingdom, Asia, and Australia.
Visit
11 AM–7 PM ET
Daily, Wednesday, December 2 to Sunday, December 6
Special event hours to be announced.
Ocean Drive at 8th Street, Miami BeachOn the beach, during Miami Art Week
Early-bird prices end November 23.
