JACKIE SACCOCCIO
In 2008, abstract painter Jackie Saccoccio first began an ambitious body of work relating to portraiture. Her “improvisational portraits,” as she refers to them, are borne out of her interest in centrifugal forces in portraits. As she reinterprets portraiture, she researched the materials, such as mica, utilized by Renaissance painters. Evolving the practice, Saccoccio's surfaces are freckled with mica and translucent varnishes, creating multilayered planes of shifting forms. In these large-scale paintings, Saccoccio's process includes tipping, dragging, and shaking the large-scale works over one another, where liquid pools of color, directional lines, and translucent orbs coexist.
EXHIBITIONS
Painting the Picture
DECEMBER 22, 2018 - MAY 12, 2019
Call & Response
OCTOBER 21, 2017 - APRIL 1, 2018
The Evolution of Mark-making
JANUARY 28, 2017 - MAY 14, 2017
Confronting the Canvas: Women of Abstraction
JUNE 4, 2016 - SEPTEMBER 4, 2016