My work is dynamic visual abstraction about urban movement...transient visual moments captured at high speed, snippets and fragments framed and defined by the cityscape, quickly forgotten, yet leaving a residual imprint that is and unconscious distillation of our collective experience. Collage, painting, sculpture, video, and photography are the mediums I use to make my work.
-- Mark Vinci
Mark Vinci is the recipient of the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. He’s been painting for over 40 years, the last 30 of those in Phoenix, Arizona. His work is shown in Los Angeles and Phoenix. Trained at Kutztown University, PA, and the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Vinci spent twenty years in the television graphics industry, working as a broadcast designer for news programming at CBS in New York, CNN in Atlanta, and ABC in Phoenix. He is the recipient of four Emmy’s for Broadcast News Graphics. Inventor of the National Barbecue Association tool and accessory of the year the Ribalizer. Vinci was a two term board member of Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and contributing artist to Phoenix Art Museum-Contemporary Forum.
Catalogue and Essay
A look at my work over a span of 40 years.
https://www.blurb.com/b/11032592-mark-vinci-and-the-american-sublime-redefined
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Awards and Prizes
2001 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2000 ART DETOUR. Ice House. Phoenix, AZ - Honorable Mention-“Dusk to Dawn”
1995 SOUTHWEST ARTESCAPES. Artisimo Gallery. Scottsdale, AZ. Award of Merit
1994-95 Emmy Award, Same Day News Graphics, KNXV-TV, Phoenix, AZ
1988-89 Emmy Award, News Graphics, KTVK-TV, Phoenix, AZ
1987-88 Emmy Award, News Graphics, KTVK-TV, Phoenix, AZ
1986-87 Emmy Award, News Graphics, KTVK-TV, Phoenix, AZ
Solo Exhibitions
2022 CRUSHERS, Avenues of Scraping Steel, The Gallery at Mountain Shadows P.V., AZ
2019 UNIT CONTROL, 9thegallery, Phoenix, AZ
2010 A Retrospective (2000-2010), Gebert Gallery, Venice, CA
2009 Avenues of Scraping Steel. Gebert Gallery, Venice, CA
2008 LUMINOUS SHELTER. Arizona State University College of Design, Tempe, AZ.
Film Installation by Mark Vinci and Paul DeNegris of DeBartolo Architects Works
2004 REMNANTS OF MOVEMENT. Darnell Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2001 TRAP-MO. Copenhagen Galleries. Phoenix, AZ
ART DETOUR. One Magnificent Space. Phoenix, AZ
2000 ROAD NOISE. Norman’s Arizona. Phoenix, AZ
FLEETING GLIMPSES. Art Institute of Phoenix, AZ
ART DETOUR. Ice House. Phoenix, AZ
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 ALTERNATIVE DIGITAL AESTHETICS, Moodroom, Phoenix, AZ
2020 MASTER COLLECTION, 9thegallery, Phoenix, AZ
2017 CONTEXT Art Miami, FP Contemporary, Miami, FL
SUMMER GROUP SHOW. FP Contemporary, Culver City, CA
GROUP SHOW. Gebert Gallery. Scottsdale, AZ
2016 LA ART SHOW 2016, FP Contemporary, Culver City, CA
2015 TWO PERSON SHOW; SUPER BOWL XLIX. Gebert Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
SUMMER GROUP EXHIBITION, FP Contemporary, Culver City, CA
CONTEXT Art Miami, FP Contemporary, Miami, FL
2014 “TEXT not texting” Group Show. Gebert Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2013 GROUP SHOW. Gebert Gallery. Scottsdale, AZ
2012 TWO PERSON: VINCI / WAGNER; GROUP SHOW. Gebert Gallery. Scottsdale, AZ
“ELEMENTal” Group Show. FP Contemporary, Culver City, CA
2011 Interpretations: Paintings by Gallery Artists, Group Show, Gebert Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2010 Mark Vinci a Retrospective, Gebert Gallery Contemporary Art, Venice, CA
2009 GROUP SHOW. Gebert Gallery. Scottsdale, AZ
2008 FLIP A STRIP. Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Scottsdale, AZ
TCA: BIENNIAL: PAPER. Tempe Center for the Arts. Tempe, AZ
GROUP SHOW. Gebert Gallery. Scottsdale, AZ
2006 JUXTAPOSITION. Cervini Haas Gallery. Scottsdale, AZ
2005 GROUP SHOW: GALLERY ARTISTS. Darnell Fine Art. Santa Fe, NM
2004 LOCAL MOTION. Studio LoDo/Phoenix Center for Contemporary Art. Phoenix, AZ
2004 GROUP SHOW: GALLERY ARTISTS. Darnell Fine Art. Santa Fe, NM
2003 6X6-INSTALLATION BY ARTISTS & WRITERS. Eye Lounge. Phoenix, AZ
THE $100 SHOW. Studio LoDo/Phoenix Center for Contemporary Art. Phoenix, AZ
PEACEABLE KINGDOM EXHIBITION. Herberger Theater, Phoenix, AZ
2002 VISIONS INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION. Art Center Waco. Waco, TX
NEW URBAN ART. “Mirage”. Phoenix, AZ
2001 NEW URBAN ART. “Local Color”. Phoenix, AZ
2000 NEW URBAN ART. Art Detour. Phoenix, AZ
1999 ARTLINK, INC. ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION. Phoenix City Hall Atrium. Phoenix, AZ
1998 WILD, WILD WEST GROUP SHOWING. The Vision Gallery. Chandler, AZ
GALLERY ARTISTS GROUP EXHIBITION. Craighead-Green Gallery. Dallas, TX
A WALK THROUGH ENGLISH GARDENS. Dallas Museum of Art. Dallas, TX
BASEBALL HITS. Sky Harbor Airport Gallery. Phoenix, AZ
Films
2008 Co-Producer “Cowboy Dreams” Locked Horns Productions
Corporate Collections
Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel, Phoenix, AZ
Valley Ho Hotel, Scottsdale, AZ
Sanctuary, Paradise Valley, AZ
Withey Morris PLC Attorneys at Law, Phoenix, AZ
Suncor Development Company, Tempe, AZ
Bank USA, Scottsdale, AZ
United Rentals Highway Technologies, Inc., Phoenix, AZ
Education
1980 School of Visual Arts. New York, NY
1978 B.F.A., Kutztown University. Kutztown, PA