Jackie Saccoccio

Profile (Heartbeat)
Now On View

Maker

Jackie Saccoccio (American, 1963 - 2020, (BFA 1985, Painting)

Title

Profile (Heartbeat)

Year

2015

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

228.6 x 200.7 cm (90 x 79 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift from the collection of Ninah and Michael Lynne

Object Number

2018.117.110

Type

Exhibition History

Art and Design from 1900 to Now
Jun 04, 2022 – Sep 01, 2026

Label copy

I went to art school in the ’80s. I thought I was going to be an architect, but I realized that it wasn’t buildings that I wanted to make but rather some kind of connection with space-delving into this vertiginous space, and trying to make something out of that. It was always an illusionistic space, though, not a real space.

-Jackie Saccoccio, 2015

Titled Profile (Heartbeat), this monumental painting has little to do with a figurative silhouette and so much more to do with the layered and messy topographies of our interior worlds. Saccoccio invited drips and spread in this spontaneous application of oil paint glistening with mica. She engulfs us in the pulsating energy of a throbbing heart, an expansive space that allows for losing ourselves in the complexities of memory.

-Kate Irvin, curator of costume and textiles

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Tombstone

Jackie Saccoccio (American, 1963 - 2020
b. in Providence)
Profile (Heartbeat), 2015
Oil and mica on linen
228.6 x 200.7 cm (90 x 79 inches)
Gift from the collection of Ninah and Michael Lynne 2018.117.110

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