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Mirella Monti Belshé was born and
nurtured in Tuscany, Italy. She completed her education with
Master of Art History and Master of Fine Arts degrees at the
University of Hawaii where she became a tenured Assistant
Professor.
In the last 34 years she has had a studio
in the Torpedo Factory Art Center. The work fabricated in
her studio is done in many media and is both two and three
dimensional. She also works in Italy at Pietrasanta and Firenze
where, with the aid of master craftsmen, models can become
bronze or marble pieces and then return to the studio where
they originated.
She has completed several private and
public commissions. Her work has been collected and exhibited
extensively in the United States and abroad, including embassies,
museums, airports, libraries, commercial spaces, and private
residences. Two current series of work are Altered Rolling
Pins and Book Segments.
Mirella returned from Pietrasanta in June
with several new marble sculptures she created there. Also
while in Italy she installed twenty six of her Book Segments
for display at Ken's Art Gallery on via San Niccolo in Firenze.
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