Statement / Bio
2019 RU Alum Anthony Ragucci is an American artist currently based in Melrose (Mass) who works primarily with water-based materials and paper as well as animation. Having lived many years in China and South Korea, Ragucci’s current work explores the concept of home and the process of forming an emotional connection to a place or environment. Ragucci’s work deals with the theme of the human condition and its aesthetic and emotional relationships. Anthony takes inspiration from random, seemingly insignificant interactions in daily life, the written and spoken word, maps, and direct observations in his immediate surroundings. This particular drawing refers to an old Korean map that depicted what was known about the world at the time. Ragucci is particularly interested in the impossibility of accurately depicting the world in a map and the resulting biases.
Ragucci’s animation work has been exhibited extensively in China including Beijing at the Xiyuan Arts festival and Black Space Gallery, Yidian Art Space 798, Beijing, Yue Space, Beijing and C+Space, Beijing; Kaaryat International Film Festival (Jaipur, India), the South African Horrorfest Film Festival (Cape Town) and the iChill Manilla Film Festival ( Phillippines). His work was also shown at the Flatlanders Studio, Winnipeg (2017); (2016); Antelope Valley College, Lancaster CA (2014); Skipton Gallery, Victoria, Australia (2013); Seoul Art Space, Korea (2012).
Artist website: http://johnnypaintbox.com/info.html