Amelia Bisbardis
- Editor at Titan Contemporary Publishing
- Sep 24
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 14
Amelia Bisbardis is an abstract photographer who has exhibited in Mexico, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Solo exhibitions in Mexico include Contemporary Art Week and Culiacán Airport in Sinaloa, Mexico, Foro Arcadia in Monterrey, and Moyshen the Gallery in Guanajuato. Group exhibitions include Consulate of Mexico in Houston, Fort Bend Museum and Catapult Gallery in Richmond, Texas, Boomer Gallery in London, and The Art Center of Corpus Christi in Texas. Amelia has been published by Artist Talk Magazine.
Based on her travels and everyday sensory experiences, the photography of Amelia Bisbardis specializes in capturing textural surfaces and the manipulation of light through several effects. The luminosity becomes captured by either long exposures with her camera or capturing chandeliers and light fixtures in complete darkness, followed by compositions which reflect delicate surfaces such as light penetrating water or capturing objects which instill a sense of abstraction. These photographs reveal a biographical narrative of Amelia’s life, not through figurative and metaphorical depictions, but rather through abstraction of surfaces she comes across upon her travels. As a result, these documentative works reveal locations and experiences which reflect a sense of unique identity and convey an artistic vision steeped in identifying cropped surfaces which have significant poetic, aesthetic, and philosophical purpose.
With a variety of compositional perspectives captured with her camera, the photography of Amelia Bisbardis ranges from architectural patterns, chandeliers, streaks of light, and water. The capturing of water surfaces with careful attention paid to the penetration of luminous effects tends to be amongst Amelia’s strongest works. These particular pieces communicate compositions which are highly poetic and reveal a stillness of time as if the viewer were frozen in place upon the shoreline and had a near-death experience. The aquatic photographs have a sensitivity and attention to detail rarely applied to aquatic photography due to careful timing, precise cropping, and the focus of the impact light has on surfaces of water.
Serie Ventanas (pictured above), which is Spanish for Window Series, remains amongst the boldest photographs from Amelia’s portfolio regarding her capturing of architecture. The diagonal composition reveals architecture cropped in a way to reflect puzzle-like geometry, or perhaps even reminiscent of patterns found in the game Tetris. Serie Ventanas portrays a geometric expression and interpretation of what appears to be middle-class / working-class apartment complexes revealed with a grand sense of design and scale beyond their social capabilities.
Amelia Bisbardis is an inspiring photographer who expresses how photography can be used as a travel companion to journal and document everyday sensory experiences through realms of abstraction through the study of surfaces. Her deep intellectual curiosity and approach to capturing the subtleties in how patterns, light, and texture impact a compositional space reflects an artist in-tuned with her conscious environments. These surfaces express a deeper understanding of how two-dimensional compositional capturing can convey subtleties and nuance which can be overlooked by the layperson but carefully attended to by an artist such as Amelia Bisbardis. Her dynamic approach of photography which invokes motion, stillness, geometry, organic forms, luminosity, and subtle texture through both integration of techniques followed by a conceptual purpose of personal identity through abstraction, portrays an artist pushing the boundaries of the poetic meaning of contemporary image-making.
