About Josi
Josi Compagnucci (b. 1990, Argentina) is an abstract artist based in Barcelona whose work explores emotional balance through color, gesture, and layered compositions. Her atmospheric paintings navigate the delicate balance between tension and harmony, inviting viewers into quiet moments of contemplation where personal emotions resonate as shared human experience.
Her practice unfolds through a slow process of writing, sketching, and painting, where acrylic, oil sticks, and pencil accumulate, dissolve, and re-emerge in translucent layers. Guided by intuition rather than predetermined outcomes, each painting evolves over time, allowing meaning to surface through the act of making itself.
Influenced by the ever-changing light and atmosphere of the Mediterranean, Compagnucci creates atmospheric works that do not seek to illustrate emotions, but to evoke them. Her paintings invite moments of contemplation where personal experiences can resonate with shared human emotions, opening a quiet space for reflection, connection, and recognition.
Josi holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture, a foundation that shapes her understanding of the relationship between painting and space. She sees each work as an active presence that transforms the atmosphere and experience of the spaces it inhabits.
Her work is held in private collections across North America, Europe, and South America.