Artist Spotlight: Beatrice Pediconi

Join us for a discussion with visual artist Beatrice Pediconi, whose video works Alien (2016) and Untitled 2015 are projected onto Central Library's facade as part of the summer Cinema Ephemera program. Pediconi is an Italian-born visual artist based in New York whose interdisciplinary practice includes drawing, photography, painting, video, and installation. 

Pediconi's artwork investigates the dissolution of boundaries. It contends with the difficult search for balance and the resulting strength that arises when one passes from one state to another, in natural, physical or existential processes. Sustained by experimentation and the use of water, a canvas impossible to completely control, she explores questions related to universal notions of flux, displacement and transformation. Made with oil paint, honey, solvent and salt in liquid suspension, Pediconi’s entrancing moving-image works Alien (2016) and Untitled 2015, when seen through the lens of our current global pandemic, evoke molecular and strange worlds as well as themes of cultural closeness and division. 

The conversation will delve into her artistic practice, including these and other works.

Registered audience members will receive details about how to access and view the program by email on the day of the event.

About the Artist:

Pediconi earned a Bachelor of Architecture at La Sapienza University, Rome in 1999. In 1995 she was awarded an Erasmus Scholarship in Paris a La Villette, where she studied painting and art history. Pediconi was awarded an Artist in Residency Fellowship at Djerassi (CA, NY) in 2019 and Yaddo (NY, US) in 2018. In 2008 she has won the VII Biennal of Experimental Art in Saint Petersburg, Russia and she is a recipient of the Special 2015 Videoinsight prize for Italian Artists. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Nucleus/Imagine Science, Noorderlich Photofestival, Groningen, The Netherland (2017), The Other View, Italian Women photographers 1965-2015, The Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy (2016), Plumbing- Sequence VII-Real Time video Biennial, Reykjavik, Iceland (2015), Les Rencontres d’ Arles, France (2015), The Polaroid Years, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar, NY (2013). She is represented by sepiaEye Gallery, New York and Z20 Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome. @beatricepediconi_