Anthony Iacono
Anthony Iacono’s interdisciplinary studio practice consists of video, sculpture, photography, artist books, and most recently, painted collages inspired by printmaking techniques.
His work recontextualizes quotidian objects, reconfiguring fruit, plants, and curtains to replace their original functions with those of physical pleasure and perversity. His collages are often a mix of portraiture and still life, depicting torsos cropped at the neck, thighs, crotch, or forehead arranged with artfully placed inanimate objects, such as a pants hanger clipped to nipples, a thorny rose clamped between buttocks, or a shrimp cocktail delicately balanced on a reclining nude. His tight and controlled collage process heightens the intensity and humor of each image, keeping combined elements in arresting and surreal contrast. Iacono’s work brings themes of fetish and queer culture in relationship to mundane nuances of the everyday, both normalizing the salacious and revealing what is hidden within the mundane.
New York, NY
Born 1987, Nyack, NY
2017 MFA Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2013 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
2010 BFA School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
www.anthonyiacono.com