Bio

Kerrie Bellisario is an artist and designer who cultivates engaging and innovative experience that ignite the imagination. She has an MFA in studio art from the University of Connecticut and a BFA in studio art from the Maryland Institute, College of Art. In addition, she is Adobe certified in visual communications. Kerrie has exhibited her artwork nationally, has completed artist residencies in Barcelona Spain, Denali National Park in Alaska and Grand Canyon National Park among others. Reviews of her work have been featured in the New York Times and The Boston Globe, as well many regional publications. Most recently Kerrie received a fellowship to further her work as a printmaking artist and photographer. She has been teaching art for more than 25 years – in community settings, as a college professor, K-12 teaching artist and as a high school art teacher at Boonton High School.

Statement

Mining the self as microcosm and projecting this self through the prism of others disperses what is private into the public. The artwork, digital media and installations I create are born of this dialectical activity and question the tenuous path of our existence, and the difference between fate and self-determination. My work reveals experiences of alienation, aloneness, pain and the discovery of wonder, hope and possibility. It is an investigation into the mystery and ephemerality of our lives.

This photo series investigates visual memory recall, contextualized through the familiar and unknown of what is real and imagined, truth or intentional repression. While the series mines my own narratives, the work is meant to inspire and encourage the understanding of childhood trauma on a more global scale.