Audra Scalzo

Audra Scalzo Biography

United States, born 1980

Audra Scalzo is a self-taught acrylic painter, based out of NJ. She grew up with a love and passion for art. She started with graffiti in high school and then worked more with large scale murals. Around 2013 she pursued a career in makeup artistry and sfx for photographers but soon she was back to her painting roots. With a well developed style emerging her drip series has taken off.

Drip - A surrealistic ice cream nightmare

This series is an exploration of the modern gaze;  acrylic  paintings that are revealed and transformed within the act of the individuals' views. These portraits are not an attempt to render physical characteristics but rather create a language of underlying symbolism. Using ambiguity as a tool demands the viewer's exploration of their psyches and provokes self awareness.

To have a painting that can exist as an alluring object and shift into a 3D figure disarms and naturalizes the modern gaze; decriminalizing dark surrealist art.