Art Venti

Since my youth in the '60s, exploring oil painting to drawing, carved wood to cast cement, I have invented a personal world of the imagination that I desire to share, crossing all ages, races and creeds.

The color pencil drawings appear as an alternative universe, familiar at the same time as strange, recalling Yves Tanguy or De Chirico. The scenes turbulent, yet inviting, are dreamlike and meditative, evoking emotions according to the individual viewer's own visceral reaction. My work demands the viewer to keep scouring the surface of the compositions, searching amidst the ethereal shapes to find what their imagination and spirit shows them. For me they parody the human condition and origins, perhaps their future.

Art Venti phone: (310) 578-7677

607 Victoria Avenue, # d, email: artventi@yahoo.com

Venice, CA 90291 website: www.artventi.com

Art Education:

1971-74 School of Visual Arts

New York, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions since 1991:

2010 Video Army. Venice Art Crawl. September.

2007 2004 1998 Artists Council Show

Palm Springs Desert Museum

Palm Springs, CA

1997 Southern California Open Juried Exhibition

Laguna Art Museum

Laguna Beach, CA

1997-91 Los Angeles County Museum of Art,

Art Rental Gallery

1996 Southwest ?96?

Museum of New Mexico,

Santa Fe, NM

1995 Fine Art Institutes S. Cal. Open Exhibition

San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, CA

Juror Suzanne Muchnic.

Hon. Mention Award

1994-95 Fidelity Arts, Santa Monica, CA

1994 29th Annual Exhibition

San Bernardino County Museum

Redlands, CA

Brand XXIII, Annual Juried Show

Brand Library

Glendale, CA

1992 John Thomas Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

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