Al Belote is a user experience designer, artist, and photographer.
His paintings are primarily non-representational or abstract expressionism. Many start as small unconscious doodles and then make the transition to larger more intentional expression and color development on canvas.
Collages develop slowly over many years as the items accumulate on road trips and scavenger hunts and come together spontaneously and continue to evolve until they are safely framed under glass or sold. Al is particularly fascinated by how things evolve and degrade due to time and the elements (wabi-sabi); you'll see the influence of this in his work.
The goal of his photography is to call attention to people, places and things that might otherwise go unnoticed. Some photos are taken for reference or as material for collages or photo montages.
Professionally Al's experience includes print and web design, advertising, and copywriting. He currently works as a User Experience Designer for the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, primarily working on christianscience.com and special projects for csmonitor.com. Responsibilities include participation in overall site development and strategy, user experience design, interface and visual design, and site usability, html code, and css.
The works on this site represent a small portion of smaller Web projects involving user experience design work, paintings, drawings, collages, photos and photo montages. All works on this site, and many of his other works, are for sale (unless otherwise noted).
