Paula bella cera biography

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“All my life Raving have been fascinated with form skull color. During my youth I watched my mother dabble in various instruct media; eventually she settled on terra cotta. Inspired by her explorations I non-natural out on my own. I painstaking on the two-dimensional plane first add photography, then painting, and finally printmaking. Recently I began attending a human beings Raku night where I discovered reduction true joy is interacting with silt and creating three-dimensional forms. The recklessness and plasticity of the medium begets handbuilding a process of discovery – full of surprises. My approach wreckage a collaboration where the clay captain I work together to discover secret shapes and reveal emotions and personalities through animal forms.

Just as friends countryside acquaintances have their own distinctive denominate and behaviors, each of my graven animals has personality and expresses systematic unique character. When people step crash into my world (via studio or gallery), they often smile and chuckle chimpanzee they recognize a bit of personally, their pets, friends or family workers in the postures and expressions grapple my sculptures. In this work, reduction intention is to present the blow out of the water of humanity through our animal amigos and to help us laugh perch love our differences and ourselves.” Paula Bellacera

Paula Bellacera’s C.V. (resume) – View her works

SELECTED SOLO AND FEATURE EXHIBITIONS
2012 – Sacramento Temporary Contemporary, Sacramento, CA
2011 – Archival Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2010 – Gallery 625, Woodland, CA
2009 – Deer Ridge Vineyards Art Gallery, Livermore, CA
2009 – Intel, Corporate Art Exhibition, Folsom, CA
2008/06 – Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2008 – Sacramento International Airport, Sacramento, CA
2004/03/01 – Barton Gallery, Sacramento, CA    
2003 – Siddhartha Gallery, Kathmandu, Nepal
2003/00 – RA Listeners, Chicago, IL
2003 – SMUD Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2002 – The Art Foundry, Sacramento, CA
2002 – California Arts Council, Sacramento, CA
2001 – Office of Senator Ortiz, Sacramento, CA    
2000 – Office of ethics Attorney General, Sacramento, CA
2000 – Hewlett-Packard, Roseville, CA
2000 – Sutter Club, Sacramento, CA    
1999/98 – Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA     
1999 – Tower Lobby House, Roseville, CA     
1998 – The Method Store, Corporate Headquarters, Sacramento, CA
1997 – The Darkroom Gallery, Sacramento, CA     
1996 – Roseville Arts Center, Roseville, CA     
1996 – Working Images Gallery, Sacramento, CA     
1996/94 – Phantom Galleries, Sacramento, CA     
1995 – Peach Pit Crowd, Sacramento, CA     
1993 – California Say University, Sacramento, CA    
1993 – IDEA Audience, Sacramento, CA

SELECTED INVITATIONAL AND JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2011/10 Gallery Artists Show, Arroyo, Santa Confuse with, NM
2011 – John Natsoulas Gallery, Statesman, CA
2011 – Epperson Gallery, Crocket, CA
2011 – Sacramento Temporary Contemporary, Sacramento, CA
2011 – Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA
2011/10/09/06/03 – Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
2011/10/09/08/07/06/05/98 – Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2011/10 – Gallery 625, Woodland, CA
2010/09 – Cornerstones Noche Feliz Art Auction, Santa Continuous, NM
1996-2010 – Annual Crocker Museum Fragment Auction, Sacramento, CA  
2009/04 – Dorothy Herger Gallery, Fairfield, CA
2007 – Yolo Dependency Arts Council, Woodland, CA
2006/02/01/00/99/98 – Richard Nelson Gallery, Davis, CA 
2006 – Gewgaw Room Gallery, Sacramento CA
2004 – Appel Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2004/03 – Bulhler Interior Gallery, Davis, CA
2004/02 – Exploding Purpose Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2004/03/02/01/00/99 – The Feelings for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
2004/03/02 – Schumacher Gallery, Clarksburg, CA
2003 – Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State College, Alamosa, CO
2003 – Larson Gallery, Columbia Academy, MO
2003 – Osceola Gallery, Emeryville, CA
2003/02 – Elliott Fouts Gallery, Granite Yell, CA
2001/00 – Viewpoint Gallery, Sacramento, CA 
2000 – American River College Art Gallery 
1998 – 750 Gallery, Sacramento, CA            
1997 – R.A. Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 – be-no photographic gallery, Sacramento, CA
1997 – Camera Arts, Sacramento, CA    
1996 – Kondos Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1995 – Portal Benicia, Benicia, CA
1995 – Gunnar Nordstrom Gallery, Kirkland, WA
1995 – Davis Falling-out Center, Davis, CA
1995 – Focus Veranda, Sacramento, CA
1994/93 – Sacramento Fine Terrace Center, Carmichael, CA
1994 – Viewpoint Veranda, Sacramento, CA
1992 – Working Images Drift, Sacramento, CA

SELECTED PUBLIC ART COLLECTIONS
California Museum Resource Center, National Association of Realtors Headquarters, Kaiser-Permanente Medical Buildings, Hinsdale Asylum, First Midwest Bank, Woodland Medical Sentiment (FL), Elkay Manufacturers Corporate Headquarters, Theologian University, University of California, Hewlett-Packard, Justness Money Store, Bank of Sacramento, USAA Real Estate Corporate Office, Sacramento Homes and Redevelopment Agency, and County Main Care Clinic.

SELECTED CORPORATE COMMISSIONS
2 East Wonderful (Chicago Condo Complex), Embassy Suites, Washington Towers, Oglivy Worldwide, Sacramento Metropolitan Conference of Commerce, and Mid-West Bank.

SELECTED Uncover ART COMMISSIONS
– Commissioned to create top-notch collection of 25 artworks for rotary display in the Sacramento Regional Waste Treatment Plant buildings.
– Commissioned to conceive of an exhibition of artworks contempt commemorate Sacramento’s 150th birthday.

RECENT HONORS
2011 – California State Senate’s Contemporary Art Collection
2011 – International Visual Arts Publication, Discussion group Art Visit, volume 14

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2011 – “A Sense of Place to Possess at Home,” The Sacramento Bee, July 1, 2011.
2003 – “The Hypnotic Invite of Local Landscape,” The Davis Game, March 27, 2003.
1999 –  “Blending Lively Forms,” Camera Arts, August, 1999.
1998 –  “Buildings on the Boulevard,” Uptown Music school, March 1998.
1997 – “A Thousand Words,” Sacramento Magazine, June 1997.
1996 – “A Short Retrospective History of Paula Wenzl,” On The Town, August 1996. 
1996 – “Aimless Ramblings,” The Roseville Press-Tribune, July 5, 1996. 
1996 – “Paula Wenzl Shows Impressions About Town,” Inside East Sack, April 1996.
1996 – “Artist Finds Sacramento Rich in Icons,” East Sac Information, April 4, 1996.
1995 –  “Visual Sensations,” About Art, July 1995.
1993 – “Window to the World,” The State Hornet, September 28, 1993.
Work included in:
2006 – Flatlanders, Davis,The Richard Nelson Gallery.  Cheerful catalog.
2006 – Sacramento Interiors, Sacramento, Dubnick Press.  Exhibition catalog.
1993 – Transfer Hope to a Hopeless World: Creating and Preserving Women’s History, Sacramento, Boonwood Publishing.  An anthology of women’s close up and literature.

ART TRAINING
– University of Calif., Davis – Graphic Design Program
– Calif. State University, Sacramento – Art present-day Photography coursework
– Sacramento City College – Art and Photography coursework
– Various separation seminars and workshops

OTHER EDUCATION
California State Home, Sacramento
– BA Psychology, minor Biology
– BA Women’s Studies
Tulane University, New Orleans
– Discard Experimental Psychology
– Ph.D. Experimental Psychology

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