Francesca DiMattio

Like many artists of her generation familiar with the postmodernist strategies of historical appropriation and high-speed access to information, Francesca DiMattio is a voracious sampler of histories, unabashedly blending traditions of media, genre, style, and periodization into an aggressive mix of forms, subjects, and materials with dazzling visual complexity. Covering DiMattio's work in painting and ceramics, this is the first publication to offer a scholarly assessment of her work and was published in conjunction with her exhibition "Housewares" at Blaffer Art Museum.