Meagan Cignoli is a queer artist and sculptor based in Los
Angeles, whose work captures the tension between fleeting
digital communication and the enduring presence of form and
material. With a background in short-form visual storytelling,
Cignoli first gained international recognition as the co-founder
of Visual Country, a creative agency in New York City, where she
developed campaigns for major global brands. Today, she has
shifted away from the fast-paced world of advertising to focus
fully on a more tactile and personal art studio practice.
Her work is grounded in ceramics, paper pulp, plaster, and glass
materials chosen for their rawness, fragility, and capacity to
register time. Through bas relief text pieces and amorphic
sculptural forms, Cignoli explores casual digital language with
slowness and care, rendering phrases like “R UOK?” or
“WYD” in vulnerable, textured surfaces. What might otherwise feel
throwaway is given weight and intimacy.
Informed by both intuition and experimentation, Cignoli’s
sculptures embrace imperfection; cracks, bubbles, and edges are
left exposed, amplifying their sense of emotional residue. Her
practice draws equally from the ephemeral nature of online
connection and the physical realities of breakage, repair, and
transformation. She lives and works in West Hollywood, Los
Angeles. When not in the studio, she is often exploring new
gallery showings, researching obscure material processes, or
sharing quiet moments, phones in hand, with her girlfriend.
This series is a love letter to long-distance connection; those
fast, unexpected bursts of intimacy exchanged in messages
across oceans, time zones, and digital spaces.
“I collect fragments, phrases sent by friends, words that stayed
with me, screenshots buried in camera rolls. Then I slow them
down. Through the physical act of sculpting them into bas
reliefs, I give these fleeting moments a kind of permanence;
something weighty, grounded, and imperfect. In a world of
constant communication, there’s something sacred about the
messages that linger. The work sits between language and form,
between saying something and feeling it.
"I’m interested in the emotional charge of the in-between.” _MC
