Using the metaphor of a body as a container, Theresa Daddezio explores notions of consciousness, fragility, and sexuality within a language of painting and its history of abstraction. Through an embodied concept of time and place, she creates optical undulations of flatness, depth, vibrancy, and subtlety. The paintings share a compressed visual environment where shapes take near identifiable forms in a fleeting taxonomy of spatial and textural obfuscation that transforms marks into resemblances of flora, vessels, and earthen strata. These forms, evoking interior physiological spaces, areas of texture, and flattened color, heighten a disassociation of visual sensation. Commingling earthen tones contrast with synthetic palettes complicate a natural and artificial physicality. Focusing on these spatial and chromatic negations, Daddezio constructs an emergent and psychological site - manifestations of sensual experience - where the tangibility of the present entangles layers of memory.

Theresa Daddezio lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA in Visual Art from Hunter College (2018). She participated in Brooklyn’s Sharpe Walentas Studio Program (2021-22) as well as the Wassaic Residency Project in upstate New York (2018). Daddezio has exhibited work at Nathalie Karg Gallery, Hesse Flatow, DC Moore Gallery, and New York Studio School (New York City); Transmitter Gallery (Brooklyn); Pentimenti Gallery (Philadelphia); the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; and Studio Kura (Itoshima, Japan). Daddezio’s work was also featured in New American Paintings (2021).