REGINA ARGENTIN
promises 48x48” oil on canvas on wood
Regina Argentin explores the subconscious in saturated color gradations that create distilled imagery layered into representational and abstract form. Her large scale oil paintings reflect the narrative with a mystic quality. Using parts of nature, wildlife and the Devine feminine, she creates an ethereal landscape of mythological dystopian symbolism.
Regina Argentin received her BFA at Art Center College in Pasadena. Upon graduation, she moved to NYC to pursue her passion as a professional fine artist. She participated in solo and group shows and has won several fellowship residencies including Edna St Vincent Millay, Yaddo, and Jane Guggenheim Burr residency in Woodstock, NY. Other awards include two certificates of recognition from the city of Los Angeles for the Lillian Fierman walkway mural. She then returned to her native city of Los Angeles to work in the film industry as an art director. She continues to do fine art, exhibit, and teach art and has also established her own fine and decorative art business.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My recent work reflects themes and characters from my graphic novel narratives. Introspective thoughts, dreams, devotion, and melancholia are depicted within images of portraiture, adventure, and supernatural situations, all within a framework of the connective relationship of human beings to nature and other species. The divine feminine, animal rights, and spirituality are my central themes.
This is my concept drawing for storm drain. My idea is to utilize the sewer cover as it is, maybe extenuate it and do a whimsical tromp oil of a sea creature that is not happy about the trash that ends up there. He/she writes a message to the viewer informing them the fate of litter that goes to the ocean perhaps encouraging a greener lifestyle.
EDUCATION
MA Spiritual Psychology USM, Santa Monica, CA
BFA Fine Arts Art Center College, Pasadena, CA
AA Marymount College, Palos Verdes, CA
the beverly wilshire 54x54” oil on canvas on wood
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Residencies
Yaddo
Millay Colony for the Arts
Jane Guggenheim Burr Fellowship
Woodstock Arts Colony
Periodicals
May 1994 Architectural Digest
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Angels Gate, San Pedro, CA
2020 Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2019 Lisa Derrick Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2016 HuZ Gallery, San Pedro, CA
2014 LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
2013 One Main, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Hold Up Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Klapper Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
2010 Galleria Los Americas, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Primal Scream, Santa Monica, CA
2003 Tatischeff Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2003 Le Studio, Hollywood, CA
1994-2000 Devorzon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
Phantom Gallery, Hawthorne, CA
2014
Max Sennet Studios, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Barnsdale Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004-2012
Silverlake Art Collective, Los Angeles, CA
1995
Neo Persona Gallery, NYC, NY
1992
Ledger De Main Gallery, NYC, NY
Select Collectors
Beverly Cohen
Citibank
Carol Little
F. Lee Bailey
Four Seasons Beverly Hills
Jean Pierre Jeunet
John and Jordan Davis
Lord Montagu
Lee Lacocca
Liz and Allan Johnson
Neil Diamond
Norman Lear
Paula Abdul
Primal Scream
Robert Radcliffe
Stephan Dewy
Wendy Goldberg