Debra Scacco
Works by Debra Scacco address the contradiction of collective isolation as a result of contemporary migration. Texture and repetition are key elements in her work, often relying on an aggregation of marks to create a unified whole. Scacco rationalizes emotion and history into rules of execution. Every creative action is the result of a concept-led system of making. These parameters provide the necessary structure to continually re-construct the past into a form that may assist the present and future: each element of time processed and therefore executed in its own distinct way. Exploring placelessness in relation to time and memory, the emotional significance of personal history is a catalyst for continual investigation of geography and environment, both actual and constructed.
Scacco’s Riverbeds series explores the artist’s active relationship with memory and place. Beginning by plotting the high and low points of a significant personal geographic boundary, a restricted palette of paint is sprayed until eventually the points organically join together. As with our memories, every moment, every action is logged; much buried beneath the surface, existing only as an influence of tone or texture. The language then traces every inch of these newly formed falsified places, examining and reclaiming the …
Works by Debra Scacco address the contradiction of collective isolation as a result of contemporary migration. Texture and repetition are key elements in her work, often relying on an aggregation of marks to create a unified whole. Scacco rationalizes emotion and history into rules of execution. Every creative action is the result of a concept-led system of making. These parameters provide the necessary structure to continually re-construct the past into a form that may assist the present and future: each element of time processed and therefore executed in its own distinct way. Exploring placelessness in relation to time and memory, the emotional significance of personal history is a catalyst for continual investigation of geography and environment, both actual and constructed.
Scacco’s Riverbeds series explores the artist’s active relationship with memory and place. Beginning by plotting the high and low points of a significant personal geographic boundary, a restricted palette of paint is sprayed until eventually the points organically join together. As with our memories, every moment, every action is logged; much buried beneath the surface, existing only as an influence of tone or texture. The language then traces every inch of these newly formed falsified places, examining and reclaiming the origin of a completely new territory.
Scacco’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Marine Contemporary in Los Angeles, and group exhibitions at Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles, Marine Projects at Salon Zurcher in New York, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art in London, and Royal Academy of Arts in London.
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