Vincent “Vin” Salvo is a self-taught painter and sculptor living outside Austin, Texas. At an early age, he exhibited whole-brained fluency in music, art, engineering, and business.

 

Though offered a fine arts scholarship, he chose a technical path, beginning his career at NASA and eventually entrepreneurial and corporate ventures in healthcare, technology, longevity, and life science.

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A polymath,  Multi-Faceted Maven™, and Aimful Alchemist™, he marries grit with gold, and the discarded with the divine in every piece he creates.

 

His best-known pieces — butterfly sculptures made from recycled metal, antique frames, acrylics, and gold leaf — balance structure with spontaneity and calculation with chance. The result is a body of found object art that honors transformation, empathy, inhibition, and the enduring beauty of discarded things.

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The form of a butterfly touches many, Salvo’s signature motif, and is often compared to Paul Villinski's work, which symbolizes flight, change, and fragile power. Like Villinski, Vin's works defy the wall, stepping forward into space—and the viewer’s experience.

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In Salvo's Fine Line series, he combines gestural wire forms, painted with raw, abstract expression, and vivid color fields that pulse with energy. Drawing from the wire traditions of Calder and Oliveira, and the emotive chromatics of Hessam Abrishami, each piece becomes a three-dimensional drawing—alive with tension, joy, and symbolic movement. ​

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Vin’s creative process is deeply spatial and experimental. The interplay of flowing lines over fields of color invites interpretation, while the sculptural elements create depth — physically and emotionally. His work is guided by intuition, craftsmanship, and the belief that art is an act of restoration.

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Beyond the studio, Vin donates a portion of each sale to local and national charitable organizations. His pieces reflect a personal vision and purpose — to reclaim, renew, reconnect, and reimagine what’s possible when mind, heart, and hand converge.