Working as a figure and portrait model since March 2006. Worked as a model for drawing, painting and sculpture including group model marathons at VisArts (Rockville, Md near Washington DC) organized by the artist/instructor Ricardo Pontes. Worked at the Art League School (Alexandria, Va) for Robert Liberace and Marjorie Forgues, the Corcoran School, University of […]
The Azarian McCullough Gallery at St Thomas Aquinas College is pleased to present a solo exhibition by John Belardo titled Creative Destruction. This body of work comprises new work in clay and on paper. Primarily focused on realistic, complex and classically inspired scenes, Belardo examines the fraught relationship between form, matter and narrative. The terra-cotta sculptures […]
The idea that an artist hires others to create their works is not a new phenomenon. Some think the practice began with Warhol because he was so blatant about the use of assistants to create mass-produced works. But even with masters such as Rubens and Raphael, the use of assistants to produce artworks is an old practice. Whatever […]
