Vincent

La Scala

The works of Vincent La Scala invite the viewer into calming compositions crafted from the repurposed pages of vintage books. His collage style effortlessly blends the nostalgia of timeworn literature with the vibrant energy of abstract expressionism and geometric modernism. Each page becomes a piece of a puzzle, fitting seamlessly together to create an inviting space for the imagination to roam.

“What does collage mean to me?” is difficult to answer. I honestly have never thought about it before—I’m just grateful that it has meaning for me, that it’s an important part of my life. Collage ultimately proved to be the most natural form of creative expression—and why that is, why that came to be, why it towered over all the other possible ways of giving shape and composition to what I see and feel, is a mystery.

Vincent La Scala

Vincent La Scala is a collage artist whose spare compositions are comprised mainly of the passed-over parts of dead and dying books: the endpapers, the margins, the backs of dust jackets, the final empty pages that cushion the conclusion of a novel—the wordless, imageless areas of a book, where reading eyes sometimes rest to dream. Occasionally a page number or a fragment of a letter from an elegantly designed title, or a detail from an illustration, survive his cutting knife to remind the viewer from where these works were born.

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Vincent La Scala is currently based in Queens, New York.