Bea Scaccia, Soft candle and hard drink, 2024

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acrylic and airbrush on canvas

152 x 122 cm
60 x 48 in

Bea Scaccia’s paintings are a deep-dive into feminine splendor and monstrosity. A solo booth showcasing her masterfully rendered work would immerse viewers in a world inspired by fairytales, art history, and pop-culture stereotypes that gives way to subversive imagination. Rendered in a dark color palette enhanced with an impressive utilization of chiaroscuro, she reworks elements that collectively give rise to illusions of societal beauty constructs, resulting in over-the-top compositions bursting with fur, jewels, wigs, and fabrics that signify deeper, psychological themes. Pearls and hair clips become infestations; what was seen as well-ordered in the sensual hairdos of the Baroque and Rococo periods become unavoidably disturbing.

Bea Scaccia has been the subject of several exhibitions in the past years including at the Katonah Museum of Art in New York, American University’s Katzen Arts Center in Washington, D.C., Magazzino, New York, and the Galleria Nazionale in Rome. Later this year Scaccia will be an artist-in-residence with the Marea Art Project in Praiano, Italy where she will continue to develop paintings based on Italian myths and fairytales. She was invited by Carol LeWitt, collector and wife of the late American artist Sol LeWitt, whose home Casa L’Orto houses the residency. A trained realist painter from Veroli, Italy, she earned her BA and MFA at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome where she studied with the late Italian artist Gino Marotta. Since 2011 Scaccia has been based in New York City, where she initially worked with Jeff Koons in his studio. Her paintings are found in collections including the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and the Portland Museum of Art, among others.

Bea Scaccia Italy, b. 1978

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Bea Scaccia Italy, b. 1978