Vinnie Hager 'Impromptu' Prints Available

Artist: Vinnie Hager
Title: Impromptu
Medium: Hand Embellished 1 Color Screen Print
Size: 18 x 24 Inches
Edition: 30 (UNIQUE)
Price: $75

 

Vinnie Hager is a Baltimore-born multidisciplinary artist who has turned compulsive doodling into a market-moving visual language. Raised in Millersville, Maryland, he spent solitary childhood afternoons filling notebooks with symbols eyes, envelopes, stars, question marks that still populate his work today. Encouraged by early $25 sales at school, he refined the alphabet while studying at Anne Arundel Community College and later at MICA, where animation and illustration courses fed his fascination with pattern.

Working without preliminary sketches, Hager lays down looping chains of glyphs in Posca pens, Procreate or paint pens, letting each shape dictate the next until dense mandala-like fields emerge. The method is meditative yet urgent; a single canvas or vintage Champion hoodie can be completed in one hypnotic four-hour session. Colour palettes shift between soft pastels and high-visibility neons, but the line remains consistently clean, recalling both hieroglyphics and circuit boards.

During the pandemic he pioneered Instagram “scavenger drops,” leaving free art around Baltimore, then watching followers sprint to claim them an act that converted online buzz into real-world community. The same energy fuels limited capsule releases: thrifted furniture, cut-and-sewn blankets, ski masks and Nike AF1s slathered with his code sell out in minutes, echoing early Supreme hype without the corporate machine.

Hager’s recent Diary NFT project translates seven years of grief into 1,000 unique digital squares, each paired with a physical print, merging Web3 innovation with tangible craft. Whether painting a six-storey Harbour East mural or grip-tape for local skaters, he treats every surface as a page in an ever-expanding sketchbook, proving that sincerity, speed and a sharp eye can transform simple marks into cultural currency.