Raised in Italy, Beatrice Caracciolo (b. 1955, São Paulo, Brazil) engages the limits of abstraction, both distilling and disrupting the photographic image, her frequent source material. Working from forms caught in motion, her keenly-observed drawings reveal frenetic, entangled bodies. Beneath their surfaces, the pentimenti of past markings suggest additional voluminous depths. Caracciolo’s work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at Gracie Mansion, New York; the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia; and the Château de Haroué, France, among others. Her work is in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; and the Accademia di Francia a Roma Villa Medici, Rome.
Beatrice Caracciolo
The Blind 17, 2023
charcoal on handmade paper mounted on canvas
70 1/2 x 102 1/2 in. (179 x 260 cm)
Beatrice Caracciolo
The Blind 15, 2023
pigment, charcoal, and collage on Saunders Waterford paper mounted on canvas
58 x 70 in. (148 x 178 cm)
Beatrice Caracciolo
The Blind (heads) 26, 2023
pigment and charcoal on Arches paper mounted on canvas
45 x 42 in. (114.3 x 106.7 cm)
Beatrice Caracciolo
The Blind (heads) 23, 2023
pigment and charcoal on Arches paper mounted on canvas
45 x 42 in. (114.3 x 106.7 cm)
Beatrice Caracciolo
The Blind 14, 2023
pigment, charcoal, and collage on paper mounted on canvas
58 x 70 in. (147.3 x 177.8 cm)
Beatrice Caracciolo
The Blind 16, 2023
pastel and charcoal on paper mounted on canvas
70 x 110 in. (178 x 280 cm)
Beatrice Caracciolo
Esistenza 2, 2021
mixed media on paper, mounted on canvas
60 x 58 in. (152.4 x 147.3 cm)
Beatrice Caracciolo
Esistenza 1, 2021
mixed media on paper, mounted on canvas
66 x 57 in. (167.6 x 144.8 cm)
Beatrice Caracciolo
Combattere 2, 2021
mixed media and collage on paper, mounted on canvas
65 x 57 1/2 in. (165.1 x 146.1 cm)
Beatrice Caracciolo
Combattere 14, 2021
pigment and cellulose on paper
paper: 26 1/2 x 20 3/4 in. (67.3 x 52.7 cm)
frame: 28 3/4 x 22 7/8 in. (73 x 58.1 cm)
Beatrice Caracciolo
Combattere 46, 2021
mixed media on paper, mounted on canvas, two panels
overall: 65 x 115 in. (165.1 x 292.1 cm)
each panel: 65 x 57 1/2 in. (165.1 x 146.1 cm)
Beatrice Caracciolo: Innocenti, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, September 12 – October 17, 2020.
Beatrice Caracciolo
Bosco Lontano II, 2019
pigment, water soluble chalk, graphite, gouache on paper, mounted on canvas
Triptych:
panel A: 57 1/2 x 65 x 1 1/4 in. (146 x 165.1 x 3.1 cm)
panel B: 57 1/2 x 64 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. (146 x 164.4 x 3/1 cm)
panel C: 57 3/4 x 65 x 1 1/4 in (146.6 x 165 x 3.1 cm)
Beatrice Caracciolo
Bosco Lontano III (Triptych), 2019
mixed media on paper, mounted on canvas
overall: 57 x 196 in. (145 x 498 cm)
Beatrice Caracciolo: Battaglia, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, February 16 – March 23, 2013.
Beatrice Caracciolo
Blue B, 2019
mixed media on paper
47 7/8 x 19 3/4 in. (121.6 x 50.2 cm)
Beatrice Caracciolo
Tearing Apart 2, 2020
pigment, water soluble chalk, graphite, gouache and collage on paper, mounted on canvas
43 x 49 3/4 in. (109.2 x 126.4 cm)
Beatrice Caracciolo
Attraversare il Fuoco (Fuoco Wood Box), 2013
digital prints, woodcut, and printed pages in wooden box
box: 9 x 10 5/8 x 1 in. (22.9 x 27 x 2.5 cm)
Edition 10 of 50
Printed by Atelier Estampe Photographique and Atelier Martin Garanger, Paris.
Beatrice Caracciolo
Untitled, 2018
mixed media collage on paper, mounted on canvas
48 1/2 x 42 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (123.2 x 107.3 x 3.8 cm)
Beatrice Caracciolo
Intenzione, 2013
pigment, water soluble chalk, graphite, gouache on Saunders Waterford Paper on canvas
42 1/2 x 57 3/4 in. (108 x 146.7 cm)
Beatrice Caracciolo
Battaglia 1, 2012
mixed media on paper mounted on aluminum
57 x 78 1/2 in. (144.8 x 199.4 cm)
