RR VAGNINI - FINE ART
Contemporary Abstract Expressionism and Socio-Political Collage
1980 - Present
Artist Biography
California artist RR VAGNINI was born in Europe and educated there and in Virginia. He first evinced drawing talent at age five, and his commitment to doing art was born while a young man with no formal art training.
RR VAGNINI's vigorous collages, paintings, drawings, and multi-media works are full of originality and power, though their technical inspiration derives from the spirit of the European surrealists and American abstract expressionists. In his work, Vagnini experiments freely with color, structure, and automatism, while striving for the simplicity of expression.
Vagnini has worked in a variety of media -- watercolor, collage, pastels, pen and ink, and ceramic -- and in styles ranging from realism to abstractionism. Shortly after relocating his studio to Carmel, he began a productive apprenticeship with noted ceramicist Joseph Hysong (himself a disciple of the eminent Japanese national treasure, Hamada.) Vagnini has also applied the Japanese aesthetic, with its melding of art and function, to the design and execution of furnishings, bonsai, and other practical items, as well as to a large selection of carvings in a variety of materials.
RR VAGNINI’s prolific oeuvre -- a life-long chronicle of experimentation with color and application technique -- has exhibited successfully on both the East and West coasts and has been collected nationally and internationally. His work was on display at the 2017 Whitney Biennial with Occupy Museums and 2019 Art Basel Miami, SCOPE with See.Me, is in permanent collections, galleries throughout the U.S., has been published in literary journals, art magazines, on-line venues and received an award for his 3-part, self-published books entitled The Cardboard Jungle Series.
RR VAGNINI is an artist who aggressively seeks to engage his viewer in an aesthetic dialogue.
-S.T.
Contemporary Abstract Expressionism and Socio-Political Collage
1980 - Present
Artist Biography
California artist RR VAGNINI was born in Europe and educated there and in Virginia. He first evinced drawing talent at age five, and his commitment to doing art was born while a young man with no formal art training.
RR VAGNINI's vigorous collages, paintings, drawings, and multi-media works are full of originality and power, though their technical inspiration derives from the spirit of the European surrealists and American abstract expressionists. In his work, Vagnini experiments freely with color, structure, and automatism, while striving for the simplicity of expression.
Vagnini has worked in a variety of media -- watercolor, collage, pastels, pen and ink, and ceramic -- and in styles ranging from realism to abstractionism. Shortly after relocating his studio to Carmel, he began a productive apprenticeship with noted ceramicist Joseph Hysong (himself a disciple of the eminent Japanese national treasure, Hamada.) Vagnini has also applied the Japanese aesthetic, with its melding of art and function, to the design and execution of furnishings, bonsai, and other practical items, as well as to a large selection of carvings in a variety of materials.
RR VAGNINI’s prolific oeuvre -- a life-long chronicle of experimentation with color and application technique -- has exhibited successfully on both the East and West coasts and has been collected nationally and internationally. His work was on display at the 2017 Whitney Biennial with Occupy Museums and 2019 Art Basel Miami, SCOPE with See.Me, is in permanent collections, galleries throughout the U.S., has been published in literary journals, art magazines, on-line venues and received an award for his 3-part, self-published books entitled The Cardboard Jungle Series.
RR VAGNINI is an artist who aggressively seeks to engage his viewer in an aesthetic dialogue.
-S.T.
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