Bio
Kevin Scianni is a Los Angeles based painter and art instructor whose work combines architecture, geometry, simulated textures, and synthetic colors to form spatially ambiguous environments.
Using various traditional and digital tools, Scianni builds paintings that exist in a merged space. The process usually begins with a sketch on paper and initial marks on canvas. The painting is then photographed and altered on the computer. These changes are then applied to the painting, and the process begins again. The paintings initially draw from a variety of sources, including architectural renderings from Early Renaissance paintings, Persian manuscripts, video game environments, and Scianni’s own photographs.
These painted environments highlight a sense of place where digital technology has been entirely subsumed; a place where there is no recognizable distinction between the physical and virtual; a social environment where experiences and interactions, and therefore one’s understanding, cannot be disentangled from the presence of the digital.
