Richard Bello was born in 1952 in New York where he spent the fiorst 19 years of his life. His parents were of puertorrican origin. A selftaught artist, Bello began his career in Puerto ico where he has live ever since. He has develop a different approach to artistic expression, taking live models and posing them. He makes plaster molds of their bodies and later excat copies of them.
Throught his works with body casting Bello has created a unique art form which fuses canvas and, ceramic sculpture to express his compelling inner vision and experience. His work is totally existentiallistic and conveys a wide range of human emotions , raging for anger, frustuation and anguish to love, hope, faith and humor. In spite of the condition, his ceramic on canvas works always deliver beauty, harmony and most important liberation.
Bello began drawing, painting and sand sculpting in 1972 and workking with ceramic in 1980. He has been developing his ideas throught body casting since 1982.
His first one man show was held in 1976 at the Old San Juan Cuty Hall. He also had shows at La Fortaleza (Governor’s mansion in Puerto Rico), at the Marrozzini Gallery (also in Puerto Rico), at Jack Gallery (Soho, NYC), and curret exhibition in Botello Gallery at San Juan.
“I believe that escape is not impossible, but that one may become entrapped in oneself and of the burdens of life. Sometimes we may appear to have been freed from them, when in reality we are coming out from one set of circumstances into another. It is a perpetual birth without death, all beginning without end, all light, darkness is only what we imagined it to be, a rebirth of time in space.”
Richard Bello
College of Engineering
San Juan, PR
1978
Palacio de santa Catalina, La Fortaleza
San Juan, PR
March 1978
Circle Fine Art
NYC, NY
June 1985
Jack Gallery
Annual Summer Group Show
Soho, NY
July 1986
David Gary L.T.D. Fine Art
Short Hills, NJ
August 1986
Jack Gallery
Fall Preview Show
Soho, NY
August 1987
Jack Gallery
Special Holiday Showcase Exhibit
Soho, NY
December 1987
Jack Gallery
2 + 2 Show
Soho, NY
May 1989
Jack Gallery
A Two – Person Exhibition
Soho, NY
July 1989
Ponce Museum
Hardvard Scholarship Fund
Ponce, PR
1989
Latinoamericana Gallery
Group Show
San Juan, PR
1990
Botello Gallery
Christmas Group Show
San Juan, PR
1990
Thankyou Susan !!!…..much success !!!!!…………..Gracias Susan !!!……mucho exito !!!!…
Soy abogada, aprecio el arte, en todas sus faces; especialmente la musica y la poesia.
Sus obras me inspiran sensaciones humanas existenciales. Angustia, coraje, el silencio del silencio. La dureza de un amor no compartido.