Vince Silla • Capri 2, 2019
Todd Weinstein • Wall Street, New York, NY, c. 1980
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VINCENT SCILLA
A graduate of the University of Michigan’s art school, Vincent Scilla is an accomplished painter, photographer and filmmaker.
Mr. Scilla’s photographs were first exhibited in the Michigan Artists show at the Detroit Institute of Art in 1969. Houghton-Mifflin, The New York Times and The Village Voice soon after published his work. Mr. Scilla next turned his attention to experimental filmmaking. His award-winning films Flyin’ No-Low Altitude and Thunder in the Afternoon were shown at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, The Collective for Living Cinema, and numerous other film events.
Since the late 1970’s Scilla has focused on painting. His baseball paintings, combining an isolated figure juxtaposed against a background of advertising, evoke an era before television. His best-known painting Spring Training in the Mountains was included in the international baseball art exhibition Diamonds Are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball sponsored by the Smithsonian Museum and the American Express Corporation and appears in the book of the same name published by Chronicle Books.
In 2005, The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio exhibited Vincent Scilla: A Tribute to Baseball’s Black Stars. Other recent exhibitions include Vincent Scilla: Baseball Paintings at Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, and Big Women at The National Arts Club, both in 2012. Golf in American Art, in 2007, Spring Training: The Art of Baseball, The Top of the Ninth: The Art of Baseball and More Than a Game: The Art of Baseball, all at George Krevsky Gallery, and a solo exhibit Vincent Scilla: The Art of Baseball at the Art Society of Kingston.
Vincent Scilla’s work has been seen on PBS and ESPN, in print with Gettysburg Review, Art & Antiques Magazine, reviewed in the New York Times by William Zimmer, and included in several books on baseball and baseball related art. His paintings are in private collections, as well as the Butler Institute of American Art, the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, the United States Golf Association (USGA) Gallery and the Atlanta Braves Ball Club. Seven of his images were acquired for the newly renovated and redesigned luxury facilities in the legendary Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox.
Vincent Scilla lives in New York City and Bloomington, NY.
www.vincentscilla.com
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Vince Silla On Influence
The primary influence for me is keeping my head up and my eyes open to the world around me.
However, I need to mention American Art of the Edward Hopper era... Jan Van Meer and the Dutch school and also the Italian Renaissance.
Lastly, my fellow artists of my youth. Our excitement for making pictures propelled me to where I am today.
