Briganti was born in a small mountain village of Padula in southern Italy on June 29, 1895. He arrived in Los Angeles in 1897 and early in life worked as a sign painter. He first studied landscape painting under Hanson Puthuff and later with Rex Slinkard and Val Costello. After serving in the in WW1, he returned to Los Angles where he met Stanton MacDonald-Wright with whom he shared an interest in Oriental art. His first exhibition was at the LA County Museum of Art in 1921. He studied in New York during 1923 and 1924 where his work was shown at the Brooklyn Museum. Upon his return to Los Angeles, Briganti began a series of watercolors of the mountains of southern California until a foot injury in the 1930s confined his works to his studio. During the mid thirties he executed a series of watercolors of the life cycle of prehistoric man; in the late 1940s and 1950s he began experiments with automatic drawing; by the 1960s he had perfected his new technique in black India ink wash on heavy paper. These works were followed by his Burnt Mountain series, the Tide Pool series and the Space series. After 1975 Briganti worked on a series of acrylic primed panels. An intuitive painter, his subconscious conditioned the context of his work.

Exhibitions:
LA County Museum, 1921
Independent Artist of LA, 1923
Art Institute of Chicago, 1924
San Francisco Art Museum Inaugural, 1935
Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939
Stendahl Gallery, 1938
Santa Barbara Museum, 1938
LA Art Association, 1950
Long Beach Museum, 1964

Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton