JOE VINSON | Sottovoce | MELANIE’S OFFICE
March 2 - April 11, 2025
Joe Vinson (Post grad certificate School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,Ma and BA Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, Fl), divides his life between New York City and Tuscany where he has taught landscape painting with his artist wife Maddine Insalaco since 1995. He has also taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cooper-Union, NY, and the Art Students League of New York.
Joe and Maddine are experts in the history of early open-air painting in Italy and have lectured, published and curated museum exhibitions on the subject in various forums including the Palm Springs Art Museum, Museo del Agro Falisco, Forte Sangallo, Civita Castellana, the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA. They have worked with major museums (Morgan Library, New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Musee des Beaux Arts, Orleans) to identify works in their collections. Most recently they completed a project for the Comune of Civita Castellana involving the creation of a map of historic painting motifs in the local territory.
Joe has exhibited both his abstract and representational work extensively in the USA and Italy.