Cristina Vergano
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Cristina Vergano (1960) is a fine artist born and raised in Italy, presently living and working in New York City. Her classical, academic painting style offsets the highly imaginative content[1] of her work. A playful, surreal vein runs through the artist’s work, along with a subtle feminist concern and a wink to Pop art. Vergano’s paintings are populated with human-animal hybrid creatures, Muslim women in lingerie, flying saucers, word games, and amused references to Ingres, Picasso, Lichtenstein, and other masters, both old and modern.
Life
Born in Milano in 1960[2], Cristina Vergano studied at the [[International School of Milan], Liceo Cassini, and Universita’ di Genova.
Vergano painted and drew since early childhood, while absorbing a creative mindset and practical knowledge from her father and grandfather, both fine artists. Frequent and extensive visits to art museums and European travels created in the artist a lasting influence of classical balance and solid technique, while classical studies gave her work a conceptual basis. After obtaining a degree in Italian Letters and Art History, the artist permanently moved to the United States in 1984.
Having lived in Florida and Georgia, Vergano moved to New York City in 1990, where she expanded her work toindustrial design, creating a line of products for New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the Liberty Science Center. She also showed her paintings at the [[Elaine Benson Gallery[[]], the Denise Bibro Gallery, the New York School of Interior design, the Chicago Athenaeum, the Parrish Art Museum and the New York Law School.
In 1996 Vergano had her first solo exhibition at the Woodward Gallery in New York City,[3] which has successfully shown and represented her since. In addition to the Woodward Gallery, recent venues for Vergano’s work have been: the University of Ohio, the Laguna Art Museum, the Art Museum at Florida International University, White Box, the City of Brea Art Gallery, the Decordova Museum, and the Anthropology Museum of the People of New York.
Selected press
Feature articles about Vergano’s work have repeatedly appeared in Juxtapoz Magazine, Art and Antiques, The Georgia Review, and American Arts Quarterly. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, ArtNews, Art in America, New York Magazine[4], Esquire Japan, the Nora Roberts novel, Black Rose, and the book cover of Half Mammals of Dixie, by George Singleton.
Collectors
Vergano’s paintings are part of several private and corporate collections, among which are Barry Sonnenfeld, Richard and Carol Kalikow, Whoopi Goldberg, The Coleman Group, Madonna, William Herbert Hunt, Robert and Courtney Novogratz, Jonathan Ross and Cooper Classics.
References
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Imaginative Content
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- ^ "Woodward Gallery". woodwardgallery.net. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
First Solo Show
- ^ "Selected Press". woodwardgallery.net. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
Selected Press