Bio / Statement
Beatrice Scaccia uses figural imagery as a means for self-portraiture and a vehicle for overcoming fears, desires, and vulnerabilities. Gender fluidity, childhood, unconsciousness are primary subjects. Scaccia plays with ambivalence, juxtaposing dialectics such as animal versus human, childhood versus adulthood, real versus unreal. At the core of her work, there is a strong interest in the vacuity and ghost-ness of living. Often linking her practice to the belief that even gender is a performative act, the artist works in-between spaces, where identities barely exist, roles are confused and places are no-lands.
2014 RU Alum Beatrice Scaccia is a visual artist and writer living and working in New York City. Originally from Italy, Scaccia studied Fine Art at the Fine Art Academy in Rome and Writing at the Minimum Fax Editor (Rome) and the Holden School (Turin). Her work has been widely exhibited and is part of the permanent collections of The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and the Portland Museum of Art. Her work has been extensively written about in Artnet News, Flash Art, The Art Newspaper, Domus, Marie Claire, Arte Mondadori, Drome Magazine, InsideArt, Art Fuse, Sole24Ore, Exibart, Atribune.
Artist website: www.beascaccia-eve.com