Francesca Dimattio
Gingham, 2015
Long Lake Estates
Francesca DiMattio (born 1981) is an American artist born and based in New York City.
She makes paintings that weave spaces using architectural, design, cultural and historical references. DiMattio’s works offer trace visions of architecture and figures, but without a legible sense of space or narrative.
The manipulated imagery references a wide range of sources, including Renaissance and Gothic architecture, classical sculpture, lace and quilt patterns, and the works of Francis Bacon. DiMattio, who describes her work as “getting into trouble and getting out of it,” is known to amalgamate abstraction and representation without fully embracing either style. Her paintings most often feature pared-down palettes of predominantly black, white, and gray, with accent colors. She is also known for a series of sculptures that fused parts of vases in jarringly different styles.
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Works at the Saatchi Gallery
Recent solo exhibitions include
Salon 94 Bowery, New York, NY (2018)
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London UK (2015)
Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX (2014)
Zabludowicz Collection, London, England (2013)
Conduits Gallery, Milan, Italy (2011)
Works appear in
Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL
The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
The Frances Young Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Zabludowicz Collection, London.