Francesca DiMattio
Rococo Candlesticks 08
MEDIUM Glaze and 14k gold luster on porcelain
DIMENSIONS
Candlestick 1: 12 1/2"h
Candlestick 2: 10 1/2"h
Original work from a series of 10 pairs, 2022
Signed on the bottom by the artist
"I'm interested in dissolving images and materials that evoke and describe a kind of upper-middle-class lifestyle. My materials reference things that are desired, but the making of each work necessitates a kind of crumbling or breaking down of the structure of that desire" - Francesca DiMattio
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Francesca DiMattio (b.1981) is based in New York. DiMattio’s work is currently included in Ceramics in the Expanded Field at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (MA). Recent solo exhibitions include Statues at Art Omi, Ghent (NY) in 2019; Boucherouite at Salon 94 Bowery, New York (NY) in 2018; and Francesca DiMattio: Housewares at the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (TX) in 2014. Her work is in the collections of the Perez Art Museum (FL), the Zabludowicz Collection (London) and the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton (NY), among others.
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