The artwork of Michael Vincent is a unique collaboration between painters Michael Maselli and Vincent Silvano. Together, the artists have achieved a remarkable and impressive quality of work, merging and enhancing their two unique styles. Collaboration has always existed among artists in some form. Art history has many examples, like Michael Vincent, of famous collaborations – from Rembrandt with fellow Dutch artist Benjamin Gerritsz Cuyp; to Gauguin and Van Gogh (where the artists often painted together and inspired each other’s work). Famous artists of the Renaissance and other eras had “studios” where much of the actual work was done by teams of large apprentice artists. In recent years, there were collaborations, including Jean Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol and Francesco Clemente’s joint painting efforts. Some art critics still believe the first impressionist painting of the Seine was a collaboration between Monet and the old man that he would frequently visit in England (British master Joseph Mallord William Turner). Michael Vincent is only one of the newest collaborations in the art world.

It is possible that destiny brought Michael Maselli and Vincent Silvano together; as the two seemed to be living parallel lives with poignant commonalities. The two met at a blues guitar jam session in Los Angeles, and had an instant connection. It was soon discovered that their grandfathers both hailed from the same province outside of Rome, Italy. Both were born and raised on the East Coast, and their wives lived blocks from each other in New York City during the same time in the 1980s.