Fernando Vignoli

Brazil, 1960

A Brazilian artist (b. Belo Horizonte, 1960) active on the East End since the early 2000s. For several years he ran an eponymous gallery in Sag Harbor where primarily he showed his own work and could often be found painting on site. Vignoli was known for his unique stylistic combination of surrealism and expressionism. Highly talented and charismatic, Vignoli died in 2016 having created an extensive body of work that met critical acclaim and was widely collected locally and worldwide. A 2006 canvas, Untitled (Cryotherapy), could seem a foreshadowing, as this vital artist succumbed to leukemia, while Time Does Not Stop serves as a poignant reminder, given Vignoli’s untimely death, to remain present and live each day to the fullest—something he very much did.