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Cayce Zavaglia: ‘I have always wanted my work to be about the portrait and the process.Cayce zavaglia biography sampler
I strive to keep these two aspects of painting in balance’
The artist talks about painting, embroidery, close relationships and how her studio practice develops through time
by NATASHA KURCHANOVA
Cayce Zavaglia (b1971) is an artist from St Louis, Missouri, who introduced embroidery into her paintings when she was expecting her first child.
Zavaglia’s embroidered paintings are hyperrealistic portraits of family members and friends, made with meticulous precision and attention to detail. Each embroidered portrait is set against a solid, non-patterned background painted in acrylic.
Trained in a classical painting technique, the artist attempts to replicate a brushstroke with a stitch, mixing different threads according to techniques of colour blending learned while at school.
Despite Zavaglia’s classical representational vocabulary, she welcomes experimentation and change, expanding the limits a