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Celebrity autographs from the artist's collection; missing persons descriptions from Federal Bureau of Investigation reports.
Valentina Vaccarella (New York, 1993) lives and works in New York. Working across painting, photography, found material, and text, she examines the shifting boundaries between desire, performance, and contemporary image culture, focusing on the tension between lived experience and societal expectation. Using both found and self-generated material, she constructs visual narratives that explore how intimacy and identity are staged, circulated, and mythologized. Recent solo exhibitions include Baby I Am Mount Everest, Inter.pblc, Copenhagen (2025); Maps to the Stars, Gaylord Fine Arts, Los Angeles (2025); Coupure De Presse, Louis Reed, New York (2025); and Flash, Borgenheim Rosenhoff, Oslo (2024). Selected group exhibitions include Lovesick, Sentiment, Zurich (2025); Reason Roulette, Essais, Paris (2025); Why Dark is the Night 1943 Paintings Are Popular on TikTok in America, Alex Berns, New York (2025); Skeletal Hand on the Glass Harmonica, Snow Gallery, New York (2025); Pantheon, One Trick Pony, Los Angeles (2024); and Don’t Die, No Gallery, New York (2023) Vaccarella’s work has also been presented at Post Fair, Los Angeles (2025) and The Armory Show’s Gramercy International Prize, New York (2023)
Patterson has a tattoo of a bird on her shoulder, and a birthmark on the back of her right thigh. Patterson was last seen on Tuesday, September 5, 2017, around 11:30 a.m. She left her home on East 9th Street in Lumberton, North Carolina, and was seen getting into a brown Buick. Patterson has not been seen since and has not had any contact with family or friends.
Maitland has a scar on her forehead near her left eyebrow. The left nostril of her nose is pierced and, at the time of her disappearance, she usually wore a nose stud in it. The FBI is offering a reward of up to $40,000 for information leading to the recovery of Brianna Maitland. Brianna Maitland, then age seventeen, was last seen during the late evening hours of March 19, 2004, as she was completing her shift at a restaurant in Montgomery, Vermont, a small town near the Canadian border. She left the restaurant in a green 1985 Oldsmobile 88, which was later located backed into the side of an abandoned barn about a mile away from the restaurant.
Modafferi was last seen on the afternoon of June 23, 1997, at the coffee shop where she was working in the Crocker Galleria Mall in San Francisco, California. The then eighteen-year-old had completed her freshman year of college in North Carolina and had recently moved to the San Francisco area to attend summer school at the University of California at Berkeley. She was living in Oakland. She has not been seen or heard from since.
Elizabeth Cates was last seen on April 11, 2004, in the Columbia, Tennessee, area. She was on her way to spend her spring break week with a relative, but has not been seen or heard from since the time she disappeared.
Vicentini was last seen leaving a bar and grill in Newark, New Jersey, during the early morning hours of February 10, 2006. At that time, she was thought to have been intoxicated and was seen with an unidentified white male. She told a friend that she was going outside the bar to the man's car to view a photograph. She has not been seen since she left the restaurant. Vicentini arrived in the United States on January 19, 2006, as an exchange student from Brazil. She was living with another exchange student in Newark at the time of her disappearance.
Forms of Address
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