West coast artist, Italo Scanga, came to America from Italy in 1997, at age 15, with his family. He has taught art at the University of California, San Diego, since 1978, and has been a frequent artist-in-residence and teacher at Pilchuck, the art-glass school in Stanwood, Washington.
Personally I am very good friends with the scanga family.
I got to talk to italos son and he told me a lot about his opinions on his father's work
Italo Scanga works as an artist in many mediums. Like Scanga's personal origins, his works of art show the many languages a single artist may use. One doesn't ordinarily think of lithographs as "talking," but you can see it in Italo Scanga graphics. Italo scangas work can only be described as "watered by an excitable temperament that ricochets from the literal to the metaphysical." italos scangas son that i talked to says that italos work always "go to extremes to engage the viewer." Italo scangas experiments with many mediums of art, but he makes his 2d work seems very 3d and real but at the same time still fictional and unreal.
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