Cianne Fragione's Mare Ionian (afternoon light) acquired by the Dallas Museum of Art

Cianne Fragione, Mare Ionian (afternoon light), 2020-2022, oil-based paint, pigment, collage older works, beaded textile, and graphite on paper, 53 x 61.3 in | 134.62 x 155.7 cm (framed: 58 x 66.1 x 3 in | 147.32 x 167.89 x 7.62 cm)

Nunu Fine Art is pleased to announce that Cianne Fragione's Mare Ionian (afternoon light) has been acquired by the Dallas Museum of Art.

With roots in the San Francisco Bay Area Beat and Funk art milieus, Fragione has developed her own process-oriented artistic vocabulary over the past four decades that crosses boundaries between abstract painting and sculpture, and between object and image. Her signature style is characterized by striking combination of oil paint, mixed-media materials, found objects, and textiles. Each piece, whether two- or three-dimensional, is built slowly over lengthy periods, becoming a dense synthesis of influences and personal perspectives, including mid-century gestural abstraction and the physical fluency of her early training as a professional dancer. While a sense of space and movement dominates her two-dimensional works, her assemblage pieces tend to be denser and more corporeal. Her most recent works respond to two collections of poems by Italian poet and writer Eugenio Montale: Mediterraneo and Ossi di Seppia.​

In 2025, Nunu Fine Art New York presented What Remains, its first solo exhibition of Cianne Fragione.