Collage: Over Head Compression

Over Head Compression is another one of those fun collages that I've been working on. Using more block geometric forms that have an architectural resonance with an overlay of movement. I really like this piece because of the simplicity of its composition coupled with the dynamic stratification of the paper.

Collage: Swerve

Swerve is 36x60. It is longer in format that the last two Torque and Distracted Driving. The horizontal format is a nice change from the last two square pieces and somewhat easier for me work with. I am having fun with these new collages the feeling of openness is a nice departure from the intense multipanel pieces. That is the feeling I was seeking in the new work. I will get back to the multipanel pieces next year. For now the work will be smaller and will continue to explore letting the paper have a greater presence.

Collage: Distracted Driver

Distracted Driver and Torque are 60x60. Distracted Driver is a less intense image. That is the intention with this piece. I am working hard to let the paper speak. I feel like the billboard paper is so beautiful that it should get a little more face time.

The Legal Limit: New small work.

Here are a few new small pieces. Top to bottom,

The Legal Limit, Screaming Thru A Drive Thru, That Rig Is Slammed, and Weaving Thru Traffic.

Move Over, I'll Drive: New Collage

Speed is of the essence. Move over, I'll Drive is the name of the collage. By me driving you will be able to press your face against the window and see all that you would miss if you had to drive. In addition it allows me to stomp the accelerator and reach speeds that will set off all the photo radar cameras we pass adding to the light show. One other thing: having you distracted by the flashing lights from the cameras, you won't see me ducking so as not to have my picture taken by them. Safety is not relevant in a collage. Or in art.

There are some close ups of this piece and It should give you an idea of why it took some time to complete.

A Hundred Miles From Anywhere: Almost There.

"Quality is Quantity. The quality of an art object is directly proportional to the quantity of something that it gives to someone who belongs to some constituency of interest" to quote Dave Hickey. This is a thought that has been rolling around in my dome while I work on this piece. I have found that as these collages progress there has been a determination on my part to place as much visual information in them as to capture the act of smashing the side of your face against the window of a car moving at speeds that would be considered reckless. A lifetime of driving in one moment. The result should be a visual that is revisited because you are always seeing something new that you missed at a previous viewing. This is what Peter Frank said about these collages in his review of my show in Venice, California at Gebert Gallery "They seem more immediately connected than ever, both to the experience of seeing things zip by and to the hyper-distortion that results from trying to record such experience through a lens". Here are some shots from last week. This piece is almost finished.

THE Magazine : Review of Avenues of Scraping Steel at Gebert Gallery, Venice

Mark Vinci
Avenues of Scraping Steel
Gebert Contemporary
Phoenix-based Mark Vinci has long been interested in the abstract evocation of speed. Doing the Italian Futurists one better a century after the fact, Vinci captures -- or perhaps recaptures -- the visual impression of speed as caught out ...read more at
http://themagla.com/cgi-bin/artmagla/review.cgi?ReviewID=217