Nikolette Bellocchio

September 9 - October 5, 2020

Nikolette Bellocchio is a printmaker, originally from Huntington, NY, and is in her final semester of printmaking at SUNY New Paltz.  Starting her career in the painting/drawing department, she quickly discovered her love for the processes of printmaking.  While creating, she thinks about loneliness, tenderness, and love, and communicates that to the viewer through her prints. She focuses on capturing emotions in their physical form, in attempts to make her work supralinguistic and visceral.   Mercurial, yet patient, her work is created by either simmering in thoughts and sketches or just purely intrinsic. Energetic lines and distinctive mark-making shelters a space of emotion; A compilation of notes, free-flowing thoughts, nostalgic items, and ambiguous lines create an imagined space that then becomes a sentimental capsule.

Nikolette has titled the prints selected for exhibition at Window On Hudson:

(an) accidental summoning

“This body of work was created through emotional improvisation.  Free-associated thoughts, poems, and prose I have written weave throughout the backgrounds of my works and emphasize their melodious nature.  An absence of sketches allows me to work unrestrained and instinctively. The stencils I use add an element of surprise, as I never know what the finished work will look like until the print is pulled. This spontaneous process becomes an accidental summoning of memories and emotions-- creating a visceral symphony on paper.”

When speaking about her general process, Nikolette says, “Through my work, I invite the audience into imagined atmospheres through a quixotic-elixir of a gluttonous color palette, loneliness, tenderness, and love.  Driven by the inherent want to connect to others, art becomes a universal language, a determined attempt to share sentiments with the audience. The dynamism in my marks encapsulates emotions at their purest.  My spontaneous process lends itself to a strong evocation of emotion for the viewer. By lack of premeditation, there is an allowance for the resurgence of the subconscious for a genuine catharsis.  There is an irreplaceable vulnerability, honesty, & authenticity that comes with artistic spontaneity.  This leads to emotional archaeology for the artist, and a similar experience for the viewer, bonding the two and creating a unifying atmosphere of existence. “