New York-Based Painter Francesca DiMattio Creates New
Installation for the ICA’s Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art
Wall
Sandra and Gerald Fineberg
Art Wall: Francesca DiMattio July 3, 2010 –
Aug. 14, 2011
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Boston, Mass. – The
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston has commissioned New York-based painter
Francesca DiMattio to create the fourth installation of the Sandra and Gerald
Fineberg Art Wall.The Art Wall is dedicated to
site-specific works by leading contemporary artists. DiMattio was inspired by
the ICA’s striking building and location on Boston Harbor to create Banquet—a new, multi-panel painting of monumental scale.
Located inside the museum’s glass-enclosed
lobby, Banquet explores how the ICA’s architecture blurs
our concept of interior and exterior space. Unfolding across five canvases, Banquet offers a fantastical take on a waterfront scene: the sails
of a tall ship intertwine with birds emerging from tiled walls and archways
leading out to a stormy sea. On view from July 3, 2010 to Aug. 14, 2011, Sandra and GeraldFineberg Art Wall: Francesca
DiMattio is the artist’s first solo museum presentation.
“Francesca DiMattio is part of an exciting
generation of artists who are taking painting in new directions,” says
Jill Medvedow, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art.
“DiMattio’s use of perspective, scale and architectural imagery
creates an exhilarating visual energy—a wonderful fit for the Sandra and
Gerald Fineberg Art Wall, where visitors begin their experience at the
ICA.”
DiMattio populates her paintings with an eclectic mix
of geometric tiled floors, delicate lace, utilitarian ladders, and dramatic
architectural elements. This disparate imagery is often woven together by
underlying grid patterns, lending a sense of logic to her seemingly chaotic
canvases. In her paintings, elements collide into each other, become entangled,
and co-exist—complicating our understanding of perspective and space.Her work seems to exist somewhere in between the abstract
and the figurative, the beautiful and the grotesque, between the processes of
creation and destruction.DiMattio describes her
working practice as “getting into trouble and getting out of
it.”
“DiMattio’s source material ranges
from high-end fashion and design magazines to images pulled from art history
books, to pieces of furniture in her studio,” says ICA Curatorial
Associate Bridget Hanson. “She combines, fragments, and deconstructs these
objects into what could be considered a surreal, imaginary
still-life. Painted mostly in black and white,
DiMattio’s new work, Banquet, reveals glimpses of blue
ocean and the Boston skyline through a fantasy tableau of chairs, tables, flower
vases, and boat masts.”
Artist bio
Francesca
DiMattio was born in New York City in 1981, where she continues to live and
work. She received her BFA from Cooper Union in 2003 and her MFA from Columbia
University in 2005. Her paintings have been featured in group exhibitions
including PortugalArte10, Lisbon, Portugal (2010); Francesca DiMattio and Garth Weiser, The Suburban, Oak Park,
Illinois (2010); The 185th Annual: An
Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National
Academy, New York City (2010); 7:10, The National Arts Club, New York
(2010); Abstract America, The Saatchi Gallery, London (2009); Master
of Reality, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
(2009); and Size Matters: XXL, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art,
Peekskill, New York (2007). Solo exhibitions include Conduits Gallery, Milan
(2010); Decollage, Locust Projects, Miami (2009); Unhinged ,
LAXART, Los Angeles (2007); and Salon 94 in New York City (2006 and 2009).
Sandra and GeraldFineberg Art Wall:
Francesca DiMattio is the artist’s first solo museum
presentation.
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