Jackie Saccoccio

Jackie Saccoccio’s abstract paintings writhe with gesture and color. Saccoccio filled her canvases with vivid networks of drips and chromatic smears of mixed color, which she r created through a variety of inventive processes and materials, like applying mica, scumbling with dry pigment, pressing together wet canvases, and dripping paint from one painting onto another. The late painter drew both on the mid-century abstraction of artists like Jackson Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler as well as more distant forebears such as Gustave Courbet and Titian and numerous writers and filmmakers, like William Shakespeare and Wong Kar-Wai. Saccoccio exhibited in New York, Tokyo, Rome, Shanghai, Brussels, and Milan. Her works are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Saatchi Gallery.