New Mexico State University Art Gallery,
Williams Hall
Las Cruces, NM
505-646-2545
http://www.nmsu.edu
Vincent Figliola
November 6 - November 12, 1999
Vincent N. Figliola, award-winning art director and advertising
creative director, moved to New Mexico to express his purely creative leanings
in a new landscape. Although he won the highest awards for advertising nationally
and 
internationally
over the past 25 years in New York City, while directing campaigns for corporations
such as Chanel, Revlon, Smirnoff, and Club Med - the artist found it impossible
to continue because his love of money was less than his love of expression.
In his own words, he came to New Mexico..."to paint, and evoke feeling
in graphite as a new genre." The artist's preferred media include graphite
drawing and oil landscape painting. This one man exhibition of the art of
Vincent Figliola opens November 6, 1999 and runs through November 12, 1999
at the University Art Gallery in NMSU's William Hall, just east of University
Avenue and Solano Drive.
While
in the Fine Arts program at Temple University, Vincent was awarded the Salvador
Dali Drawing Competition and offered an apprenticeship in Spain. Born in
Harrison, New York in 1936, Vincent N. Figliola currently resides in desert/mountain
landscape in Las Cruces, New Mexico. His work is included in selected corporate
and private collections, nationally and internationally.
The following professionals have said of Vincent:
"Stunning work. Will be one of the important painters
of this century. Has surpassed realism."
-Lee Castelli, Manhattan, New York
"The
artist has created a -whole new genre. He paints with pencil. These aren't
black and white pen and ink drawings because there's an infinite variety
of textures and feelings in tones. He's actually painting with the pencil."
-Isabel Trimper, Corporate Art Unlimited, Westport, Connecticut
This exhibition was organized by The Friends of the Gallery.
Photos courtesy of artist.
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Vincent N. Figliola, award-winning art director and advertising
creative director, moved to New Mexico to express his purely creative leanings
in a new landscape. Although he won the highest awards for advertising nationally
and 
internationally
over the past 25 years in New York City, while directing campaigns for corporations
such as Chanel, Revlon, Smirnoff, and Club Med - the artist found it impossible
to continue because his love of money was less than his love of expression.
In his own words, he came to New Mexico..."to paint, and evoke feeling
in graphite as a new genre." The artist's preferred media include graphite
drawing and oil landscape painting. This one man exhibition of the art of
Vincent Figliola opens November 6, 1999 and runs through November 12, 1999
at the University Art Gallery in NMSU's William Hall, just east of University
Avenue and Solano Drive.
