Art Basel at Bar Luca

Welcome to Bar Luca at the historic Alden Hotel

Date: December 5, 2024

Time: 6pm - 9:30pm

Location: Alden Hotel Miami Beach

Nestled in the heart of Miami Beach, this boutique hotel is home to Bar Luca, where a creative fusion of Italian and American cuisines result in decadent comfort foods. Experience an evening filled with live painting, music and flavors from other parts of the world, as well as drinks and appetizers that will delight your palate. Let your imagination run wild as you explore the beauty of artistic expression in all its forms.

Francesca Escoto is a red-chip mixed media artist whose work inspires connection to ourselves and to others. Her work incorporates acrylics, embroidery, gel mediums and oil glazes to create intricate designs that invite people to deep reflection and enjoyment. The "INTERWOVEN" collection celebrates art itself, and the role it plays in helping people groups across the world to create identity and community. This body of work is an art collector's dream - the perfect time for art enthusiasts to add fresh, vibrant works to existing or new collections.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Francesca Escoto was born and raised in the Caribbean island of the Dominican Republic. Both her maternal and paternal families included visual and performing artists, ranging from singers to photographers, to graphic designers, painters, seamstresses, and shoe makers.

Escoto arrived in the US at the age of 11, and this is where the life-long multi-passionate life adventure began. Her first art class was at the University of Miami Museum of Art in 2000, where she learned charcoal drawing and focused on portraiture. Simultaneously, she was launching her serial-entrepreneur career, starting with a venture to build software that tracked the performance of aircraft engines. For the next two decades, she blended her engineering degree with entrepreneurship, continuing to draw for self, family and friends as a hobby.

20 years later, Francesca trained under Charla Marschalk, a Canadian acrylics color master, experimenting with bold color palettes and expressive portraiture. Over the course of four years, Escoto's work was influenced by older masters Klimt and Renoir, for their use of vibrant, colorful pattern and the masterful use of brushstrokes in figures, respectively. Contemporary artists that have also influenced her include Bisa Butler, Tania Wursig, Jon Wassom, and Charla Marschalk, each of which use mixed media in unique ways, challenging Escoto to grow until her own voice and style emerged.

Francesca continues a mixed career in software, painting, and coaching. She lives in Tampa Bay with her husband, three daughters, mother, and her dog.

Host or Publisher Francesca Escoto