With a career spanning 20 years and having created more than 250 large sculpture pieces, D’Arcy Bellamy is a seasoned metal sculptor. Bellamy focuses on making human scale, abstract, minimalist, and often kinetic sculptures exclusively from steel pipe. Bellamy’s work is characterized by flowing lines, strong negative space, originality, movement and shadows. The work has a rough, unrefined, spontaneous, and playful nature, often resulting in a smile from the viewer.
Bellamy is a self-taught artist. After growing up along the East coast, going to college in the Midwest, and spending 2 years in the Caribbean, Bellamy earned an MBA and has had a successful career in sales and design. Bellamy began to explore art in 2002 at The Creative Arts Center in Dallas where he quickly found his medium of steel pipe as a metal worker. Since then, Bellamy has spent evenings and weekends making sculpture from steel pipe. Over the last 20 years, Bellamy has lived in Colorado, Dallas and Boise, ID.
Bellamy continues to develop his expertise as a sculptor by making new and innovative creations and exhibiting that work. With his unique process of subtractive fabrication, Bellamy has created a large body of original, engaging work that is varied yet consistent, becoming more refined over time. Bellamy says the following about his process:
Most metal sculptors work in an additive process or one that involves casting. In a process I call subtractive fabrication, I work more like a stone carver, removing material and adding mostly space and line. I enjoy releasing the energy that is stored in each length of pipe.
Bellamy’s original sculptures are exhibited in galleries in Boise, ID and at Artplex Gallery Los Angeles, CA. His works have also been exhibited galleries in Dallas, Aspen, and Boise and have been collected throughout the USA.
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021 Bosco Open Studios
2019 Solo Show Boise State University Fine Arts Gallery, Boise, ID
2018 Bosco - Boise Open Studios
2017 Bosco - Boise Open Studios
2015 Two Person Show Gallery 518 Boise, ID
2007 Pipe Dreams Solo Show The Samba Room Dallas, TX
2006 Two Person Show Mary Tomas’ Gallery Dallas, TX
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Capitol Contemporary Gallery Boise, ID
2021 Capitol Contemporary Gallery Boise, ID
2020 Capitol Contemporary Gallery Boise, ID
2019 Capitol Contemporary Gallery Boise, ID
2019 Art and Soul of the Magic Valley Twin Falls, ID
2018 Swell Arts Collective Boise, ID
2018 Art Bar Boise, ID
2018 Mitchell Gallery Ketchum, ID
2018 Art on Fourth Ketchum, ID
2018 Coiled Wine Bar Boise, ID
2018 Ketchum Art Fair Ketchum, ID
2017 Art and Soul of the Magic Valley Twin Falls, ID
2017 State & Lemp Boise, ID
2014 Gallery 518 Boise, ID
2012 Sculpture in the Park Loveland, CO
2012 The Fork Restaurant -pop up Boise, ID
2008 Aspen Gallery at Highlands Aspen, CO
2008 Mitchell Gallery Aspen, CO
2008 Aspen Art Museum Aspen, CO
2009 Aspen Art Center Aspen, CO
2007 Cedars Gallery Dallas, TX
2007 Art Party 2 Dallas, TX
2007 Business and the Arts Dallas, TX
2007 Tracy Locke Dallas, TX
2006 Texas Sculpture Association Dallas, TX
2006 Fall Gallery Walk Fort Worth, TX
2006 Texas Sculpture Association Dallas, TX
2005 Uptown Vision Dallas, TX
2005 Loveland International Loveland, CO
AWARDS
2005 Int. Society for Experimental Artists 1st Place Dallas, TX
2005 Outside the Lines 1st Place Dallas, TX
2005 Texas Visual Arts Assoc 3rd Place Dallas, TX
2004 Citation 2004 Rowena Elkins Sculpture Award Dallas, TX