Art Venti

Art Venti has been selling his work locally in Los Angeles, nationally and internationally for many years, but has recently moved to the U.K with his wife Jennifer.
Art has been working in various media since the 1980s, but committed himself over the last 6 years to the time consuming and meticulous drawing style of colour pencil and graphite over a marker and paint background, on archival paper.
These are large, complex compositions from the artist's imagination.The compositional framework is often begun by random arrangements of various recycled tissues and papers that spark his imagination.

School of Visual Arts, New York. USA

Colored Pencil Magazine of America feature June 2016
CPM award 2014
Drawing Magazine 2015 winter edition feature
Colored Pencil Magazine 2013 focus artist March

Recent Exhibitions USA:
2015: Saatchi Art sponsored L.A. Design Summit, Venice, CA. USA
Interactive Lines, Cabarrus Arts Council, North Carolina, USA
May: Incognito. Santa Monica Art Museum, Santa Moncia, CA.
BG Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA.
2014: Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Lee County Alliance for the Arts, Florida.
Aleatoric Arts, Houston, Texas.
upcoming:
May: Incognito. Santa Monica Art Museum, Santa Moncia, CA.
BG Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA.

Early influences were Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali.

drawing, painting, mixed media, surrealism, abstract