Bea Scaccia

Biography

Image Credit: Toshiaki Noda

"I paint artifices. My focus has always been the act of masking, of covering up, of literally putting oneself together. From my early passion for Erasmus’ In Praise of Folly, I could have guessed that my path would have gravitated around those themes. I am interested in representing our shapeshifting, dramatic, transformative selves. I’ve read about myths and fairytales, about metamorphosis and archetypes. I paint signifiers of artificial beauty, and we all know how feminine beauty can easily turn monstrous in our society. Women have been othered for centuries — in literature, visual art, and culture in general."

Bea Scaccia (b.1978, Veroli, Italy) earned her BA and MFA at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome where she studied with the late Italian artist Gino Marotta. In her paintings, she reworks the elements that collectively give rise to illusions of beauty and constructions of appearance, compressing them on the canvas as surreal, uncanny marks of affectation. Investigating the cultural links between feminine splendor and monstrosity, she builds pictorial compositions that can be read as true parodies of bon ton. A trained realist painter, Scaccia's method is more spontaneous rather than it is planned. She uses recurring visual tropes...

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Works

Bea Scaccia
May I live on a tree and look at my mood swings from above?, 2025
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
101.6 x 121.9 x 3 cm
40 x 48 x 1 1/8 in
Bea Scaccia
Cake, candle, swing, flying shoe, colorful stockings. Am I not perfectly alive?, 2025
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
182.9 x 152.4 x 4 cm
72 x 60 x 1 5/8 in
Bea Scaccia
Exceptionally groomed in a flawed compression swing, 2025
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
182.9 x 152.4 x 4 cm
72 x 60 x 1 5/8 in
Bea Scaccia
Green leaves can fall too-trust vs trash, 2025
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm
40 x 40 x 1 1/8 in
Bea Scaccia
Study for swinging shoe and birdhouse, 2025
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
61 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm
24 x 20 x 1 in
Bea Scaccia
Study for swinging sock, 2025
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
50.8 x 40.6 x 2.5 cm
20 x 16 x 1 in
Bea Scaccia
Study for swinging shoe, 2025
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
50.8 x 40.6 x 2.5 cm
20 x 16 x 1 in
Bea Scaccia
Study for swinging gloves, 2025
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
50.8 x 40.6 x 2.5 cm
20 x 16 x 1 in
Bea Scaccia
Birds don’t dress me up, 2024
acrylic and hairbrush on canvas
91.4 x 76.2 cm
36 x 30 in
Bea Scaccia
Chatty But Shiny and Fit—with hidden cats, 2024
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
182.9 x 152.4 x 4 cm
72 x 60 x 1 5/8 in
Bea Scaccia
Look pretty, smell good and hide your cats, 2024
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
122 x 152 x 4.5 cm
48 x 59 7/8 in
Bea Scaccia
(I heard that shiny red attracts the eye) Are you intrigued? , 2025
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
101.6 x 121.9 x 3 cm
40 x 48 x 1 1/8 in
Bea Scaccia
Too many thumbs, none green. I am such a doll with a cactus companion, 2025
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
182.9 x 152.4 x 4 cm
72 x 60 x 1 5/8 in
Bea Scaccia
When tongues came out, we weren’t ready, 2025
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
190 x 200 x 4 cm
74 3/4 x 78 3/4 x 1 5/8 in
Bea Scaccia
I don't mischievously lose my shoes anymore, 2025
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
101.6 x 121.9 x 3 cm
40 x 48 x 1 1/8 in
Bea Scaccia
Catch a glipmse, 2024
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
152 x 122 cm
60 x 48 in
Bea Scaccia
Weighing up her options, 2023
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
152 x 122 cm
60 x 48 in
Bea Scaccia
Soft candle and hard drink, 2024
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
152 x 122 cm
60 x 48 in
Bea Scaccia
Gattara Uno, 2023
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
183 x 152 cm
72 x 60 in