Vincent Stracquadanio

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA

Artist statement

My work depicts spaces of transformation and magic. These lavish interior spaces collapse and extend using patterning and flatness that eliminates hierarchies between front and back, foreground and background. The rich patterning of these spaces is dense with visual surprise and full of organic references, geometry, personal history, horror films, and antiquities. Each picture not only exhibits an interior logic, but also presents distinct idiosyncrasies suggesting differentiations in time, event or architecture. Some spaces are filled with foreboding forms such as dark fire and cloud-like mists that appear to seep through various spaces disrupting spatial certainty. Others, silhouetted figures and latticed patterns line corridors and form structures for rhythm and magic. In many lingering shadowy hands cradle and loom over these spaces, suggesting a menacing presence that creates and holds these spaces together.

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