Most of the work I’ve chosen for this website are spare compositions comprised mainly of the passed-over parts of dead and dying books: the endpapers, the margins, the final empty pages that cushion the conclusion of a printed narrative. The wordless and imageless areas of a book, where reading eyes sometimes rest to dream. Occasionally a page number or a fragment of a letter from an elegantly designed title survive my cutting knife to remind the viewer from where these works were born.The work develops from whatever materials I happen to find, usually in flea markets and from sidewalk junk sellers, but the detritus and ephemera I use can be found almost anywhere. I’ve nurtured a sharp eye for spotting a collage lurking within the pages of old printed matter, just sitting there, waiting for me.
In the mid- to late nineties my work appeared in a number of group shows at Adam Baumgold Fine Art in Manhattan, culminating in a solo exhibition in 1998.
Of this show, Grace Glueck, writing in The New York Times, said: “[Mr. La Scala’s] collages, in which snippets of images from everywhere—even a piece of painting by Edward Hopper—are tumultuously juxtaposed. Max Ernst and others got there a long time ago, of course, but Mr. La Scala imposes his own will on this well-worn technique.”
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