I'll occasionally paint
on YUPO, cold - pressed or rough paper.
Saccoccio's work first caught my eye in a 2013 group exhibition called Let's Get Physical, curated by the painter Rick Briggs at Ventana 244 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where she showed a grid of four paintings in gouache and ink
on yupo paper, dominated by drips and spatters and networks of bleeding color.
Acrylic
on yupo paper mounted on wood, 23 x 35 inches, Courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.
One of her most recent works («Albers» House») is a 36 - foot - long oil painting
on yupo which was featured in a retrospective at the Grace Museum in Abiliene.
Left: Firelei Báez, Zafa Fukú (April 30th, 2012), 2015, acrylic and ink
on yupo paper, 60 x 72 inches.
Pictured above: Ventana Origami Sculpture, 2017, mixed - media
on YUPO with painted figurines, custom wallpaper.
Not exact matches
She currently works in acrylic and mixed media
on a synthetic paper called
yupo, and
on canvas.
All of the works are painted
on the Japanese plastic paper «
yupo» which allowed the artist to travel with her materials and upon return mount them to board.
I recently sat down with Mary at her Dallas studio where we discussed early inspirations, Berkeley in the «60s, her love of art history, the evolution of the Meadows collection, her impact
on generations of art students, her love of
yupo and a run - in with Georgia O'Keefe.