Client: City of Saint Petersburg, Florida
Location: Saint Petersburg, FL, United States
Completion date: 2025
Artwork budget: $1,200
Project Team
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Regina "Reggie" Morrisey
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Project Creator
Vincent Mancuso
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Overview
Vincent Mancuso was captivated by the Snell Arcade building reflection in a modern skyscraper diagonally across it on Central Avenue, Saint Petersburg, Florida. He rendered the technically complex 24″ x 30″ pastel of the two buildings, iconic Snell Arcade mirrored in the glass facade of the 20th Century office building. Historic Reflection is one of his many Earth Portraits.
Goals
Visitors to the 2025 renovated President Barack Obama Main Library in Saint Petersburg, Florida, would recognize the pastel painting Historic Reflection by Vincent Mancuso as representing the city's bustling Central Avenue, It is a nod to its past and future and to the city's celebrated blue skies.
Process
Vincent Mancuso, a juried member of the Pastel Society of America, created this work.
Additional Information
As a city where Vincent Mancuso and his wife Reggie Morrisey have lived and worked since moving from New York in 1995, Saint Petersburg is a significant place. The couple enjoys the city's beauty and weather, its diverse citizenry and its recreational, artistic, civic, social and intellectual life, including its libraries. (See their posts on OfTwoMinds2 on Instagram.) Studio@620 hosted a retrospective of Mancuso paintings in 2019. Past exhibits include: The Morean Arts Center, where he taught The Art of Pastels for 10 years, Alla Prima Fine Art Gallery, Jane Chapin Gallery and Ludner Confident Gallery. Affiliation with the name President Barack Obama carries deep meaning as well. It would be an honor to have Historic Reflection hanging in the President Barack Obama Main Library as part of Vincent Mancuso's legacy.