My work has always centered around my abiding fascination with New York City, where I am from. My current body of work focuses on concepts of contrast and contradiction: both in subject matter and style. From the solitude of a crowded subway, to the soft romantic hum of a neon-lit laundromat, it is the balanced opposition of these moments that I look for.
These paintings depict scenes of life in New York City that are simultaneously real, imagined, and embellished. Through this work I have especially sought to examine solitude. Not through a pitying lens, but rather as a simple study in observation.
These scenes are snapshots of the city, and are depicted through the viewpoint of the city—the city as observer and most honest witness of its subjects.
My use of contrast: light and dark, pastel and neon, add to the mood and narrative of each piece creating a body of work that deals with, but is not consumed by, darkness; it is rather: darkness adjacent. These paintings come together to form a series of portraits of New York City, it is my hope and intention that these portraits honestly convey the feeling of moving through a city that one is intimately familiar with, that is overflowing with people and visual information, yet one can feel completely still, and singular within this reverberating chorus of entropy.
Biography
1992 Born in New York City, NY
2007 Lyme Academy of Fine Art Summer Sculpture Intensive
2008 Cooper Union Summer Drawing Intensive
2009 Cooper Union Summer Portfolio Development
2014 BA College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Sicula, Ethel H Blum Gallery, Bar Harbor, ME
2015 Jessica Ryan and Victoria Accardi, Montage, NY
2016 Street Scenes in Oil Paint, Smith College Nolen Art Lounge, MA
2017 Art and Education in Maine, The Gallery at Somes Sound, ME
2019 Electric Signs, Greenpoint Gallery, NY
2020 Victoria Accardi Solo Exhibition, Egoless Creative Gallery, NY
Group Exhibitions
2008 Summer Art Intensives Show, Cooper Union, NYC
2009 Summer Art Intensives Show, Cooper Union, NYC
2011 Group Show, Essex Art Association, CT
2014 Group Show, Artemis Gallery, ME
2015 Group Show, The Gallery at Somes Sound, ME
2016 Group Show, The Gallery at Somes Sound, ME
2017 Group Show, The Gallery at Somes Sound, ME
2018 Group Show, The Gallery at Somes Sound, ME
2019 Group Show, The Gallery at Somes Sound, ME
2019 People's Choice Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, NY
2019 Light, 440 Gallery, NY
2019 Rendering Likeness, La Bodega / Established Gallery, NY
2019 Artist Co-Op, Jamaica Center For Arts & Learning, NY
2019 All Decked Out, Egoless Creative Gallery, NY
These paintings depict scenes of life in New York City that are simultaneously real, imagined, and embellished. Through this work I have especially sought to examine solitude. Not through a pitying lens, but rather as a simple study in observation.
These scenes are snapshots of the city, and are depicted through the viewpoint of the city—the city as observer and most honest witness of its subjects.
My use of contrast: light and dark, pastel and neon, add to the mood and narrative of each piece creating a body of work that deals with, but is not consumed by, darkness; it is rather: darkness adjacent. These paintings come together to form a series of portraits of New York City, it is my hope and intention that these portraits honestly convey the feeling of moving through a city that one is intimately familiar with, that is overflowing with people and visual information, yet one can feel completely still, and singular within this reverberating chorus of entropy.
Biography
1992 Born in New York City, NY
2007 Lyme Academy of Fine Art Summer Sculpture Intensive
2008 Cooper Union Summer Drawing Intensive
2009 Cooper Union Summer Portfolio Development
2014 BA College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Sicula, Ethel H Blum Gallery, Bar Harbor, ME
2015 Jessica Ryan and Victoria Accardi, Montage, NY
2016 Street Scenes in Oil Paint, Smith College Nolen Art Lounge, MA
2017 Art and Education in Maine, The Gallery at Somes Sound, ME
2019 Electric Signs, Greenpoint Gallery, NY
2020 Victoria Accardi Solo Exhibition, Egoless Creative Gallery, NY
Group Exhibitions
2008 Summer Art Intensives Show, Cooper Union, NYC
2009 Summer Art Intensives Show, Cooper Union, NYC
2011 Group Show, Essex Art Association, CT
2014 Group Show, Artemis Gallery, ME
2015 Group Show, The Gallery at Somes Sound, ME
2016 Group Show, The Gallery at Somes Sound, ME
2017 Group Show, The Gallery at Somes Sound, ME
2018 Group Show, The Gallery at Somes Sound, ME
2019 Group Show, The Gallery at Somes Sound, ME
2019 People's Choice Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, NY
2019 Light, 440 Gallery, NY
2019 Rendering Likeness, La Bodega / Established Gallery, NY
2019 Artist Co-Op, Jamaica Center For Arts & Learning, NY
2019 All Decked Out, Egoless Creative Gallery, NY