Mark Vinci, who currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona, is a mixed-media artist and recipient of the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for the period of 2001-2002. He also received a career advancement grant from the State of Arizona in 2002 and served as Artist Representative on the Board of Directors of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art from 2006-2008. Vinci received his B.F.A. from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania in 1978 and has been painting for over twenty-eight years. Through his abstract work he documents what he feels is the collective experience of the high-speed, dynamic nature of city life. Vinci fittingly uses paint and billboard paper to construct collages representing movement and the often hectic and distressing experience of driving amongst all the advertisements and neon signs present in modern cities. Vinci states: "I am a visual artist. 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, sculpture, video, and photography are the mediums I use to make my work."