Adriana Coluccio infuses her artistic practice with her passion for classical oil painting, while drawing influence from film and her interest in the imperfections created through digital media.

Her paintings reflect her fascination with explorations of vision, light and motion; displaying distorted forms and fluctuations of light and color. Through the process of painting with oil glazes she is building up images on her canvas that are simultaneously  in a state of being torn apart and in the process of  transforming into something new.  Her pieces, in a state of constant flux, investigate the relationship between disintegration and re-invention.

She is inspired by the manner in which images are constructed, deconstructed, produced and reproduced. Her work alludes to her fascination with the juxtaposition of old and new media, the transference from one form to another and the dimension that exists in between images. The paintings she creates portray the loss of visual information that is the result of reproduction and teeters between fully comprehensible images and abstractions.

Confronted by an image under distress, viewers are forced to pick out the pieces of what is recognizable. This image, thwarted by the remnant of shapes and blank spaces, is simultaneously experienced in the past and the present, evoking as a lost memory—an instance of dissolution and regeneration. Sifting through the chaos, we extrapolate what we can from the remaining shapes, as the fleeting nature and malleability of time and space are represented on the canvas.