Jackie Saccoccio, Painter of Explosive Abstraction, Dies at 56
She specialized in large canvases on which splashes of luminous color swirled and clashed. Her goal was to make her paintings seem as if they were moving.
Jackie Saccoccio in 2017 in a studio in Umbria, Italy. She made several trips to Italy to study art, sojourns that became essential to her work.Credit.Marco Giugliarelli/Civitella Ranieri Foundation
Published Dec. 28, 2020Updated Jan. 1, 2021
Jackie Saccoccio, a painter known for explosive yet delicately structured, almost atmospheric abstract paintings that exploited paint’s fluidity in the tradition of Jackson Pollock, Paul Jenkins and Helen Frankenthaler, died on Dec. 4 in Manhattan. She was 56.