Joan Belmar

Global Twisted

Solar etching plate, embossing, engraving on paper

"This series of prints titled ‘Archetypes’ evokes the senses of geography, history, and geometry; hence I have adapted various techniques (embossing, laser-cut, Chine-collé, and solar etching), along with different properties of paper, that give life to a unique multi-layered print.”

— Joan Belmar

About the artist

Joan Belmar

American

Joan Belmar was born in Santiago, Chile in 1970. He left Chile for Spain at the age of 24. He began painting professionally in Spain, using the Catalan name Joan for his first name John. He came to Washington, D.C. four years later in 1999, was granted permanent residency in the U.S. based on extraordinary artistic merit in 2003, and became a citizen in 2010. Currently he is living and working between Poughkeepsie and New York City. Belmar is well known for his unique technique of 3-D paint and one of a kind multilayered prints. He combines techniques (printing, photography,drawing and collages) in order to create a stratified experience Belmar’s work is part of many private and public collections, including the University of Maine Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection, Microsoft art collection, capital one art collection,Fidelity Investment Art Collection, Boston, MA, The John Wilson Building, City Hall Art Collection Washington, DC between many others.