Biography
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"Reimagining Arte Povera for the Anthropocene, Percoco utilizes discarded materials and abandoned spaces in the built environment often regarded as worthless. But to her, it is precisely because these materials and places are overlooked that allow them to accumulate possibilities otherwise absent in traditional white box art. More than assemblages of society’s flotsam and jetsam, Percoco’s excavatory work reveals obscured layers of meaning beneath the rubble of commercialism, creating a complex lens through which to view the inherent interconnection between the human and natural worlds." -- Lorissa Rinehart, Art and Object
ARTIST STATEMENT:
As a sculptor, my artistic strategy involves re-contextualizing existing elements: presentation rather than representation. My process is resourceful, responsive, and playful. I spend as much time researching, exploring sites, and scavenging for materials as I do making.
I often work with junk and junk-spaces: materials and places that are overlooked, untended, and thus host to numerous extraordinary possibilities; places where artifacts accumulate, weeds grow, and history is most visible. I am interested in the interface between nature and culture, including the varied representations of plant-life for commercial and decorative purposes.
I produce public interventions, work for traditional gallery settings, web-based projects, and publications. I learn different things from each way of working.
In addition to maintaining my own art practice, I co-founded the Next Epoch Seed Library, along with Ellie Irons. NESL is a seed library dedicated to self-seeded plants that thrive in environments heavily impacted by humans (weeds). These plants are our indispensable companions as we inhabit novel ecosystems and journey through climate chaos together. Through presentations, workshops, seed-swaps and exhibitions, NESL encourages participants to engage with their local habitat and reflect on their own role in the adaptation and success of these plants.
BIOGRAPHY:
After earning my M.F.A. from Rutgers University, I completed an Asian Cultural Council fellowship for research and production of new work in India. I’ve presented solo shows at Chitrakala Parishath College of Art (Bangalore, India) as well as NURTUREart and A.I.R. Gallery (both in Brooklyn), ArtBloc and Casa Colombo (Jersey City). Awards include a public sculpture commission from the Randall’s Island Park Alliance in NYC, the Bronx Museum’s Artist-In-the-Marketplace Program, and the Foundation for Contemporary Art’s Emergency Grant.
My work will be shown at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at St. Louis in 2025 and has previously appeared nationally at venues such as the Anchorage Museum (Alaska), Wave Hill (Bronx, NY), the Islip Arts Museum (Long Island), and the U.S. Botanical Garden (Washington D.C.) and internationally in India, Italy, Germany, Chile, the Netherlands, and Estonia.
Photo by Suzy Gorman.