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Artist Exhibitions:
• Resume
Education
C.S.U.L.B. (Long Beach, CA)
Associate in Arts Degree,
Orange Coast College (Costa
Mesa, CA)
Affiliations
Pasadena Society of Artists
(PSA)
Selected Exhibitions
2007 Bonaventure Hotel—“Sense
of Community” (Los Angeles,
CA)
Terra Gallery—“Open Up”
(Columbus, OH)
Essence of Living (Hermosa
Beach, CA)
The...
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Artist Galleries:
http://www.picassomio.com/scott
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http://www.123soho.com/artists/
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Galeria Jan (La Jolla, CA)
www.galeriajan.com
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Artist Reviews:
• Interview by Mike Hicks
(ArtInTheVault.com)
a/v: Give us a little
background: Where were you
born? Where have you lived?
Scott Spencer: I was born in
Santa Monica, California, and
haven't strayed too far since.
I grew up in Huntington Beach,
bounced around Orange County
for awhile, and...
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Collections:
David and Nadine Alon, Belgium
Dr. William Armstrong
Vern Asche, Devore, CA
David Brashear, Virginia
Michael L. Grace, Palm
Springs, CA
Joe Hudgens, Alhambra, CA
Mark Humphry, Altadena, CA
Glade Johnson Design,
Bellevue, WA
Brad Kuhlin, Pasadena, CA
Westley Lagerberg, Yorba
Linda, CA
Lurssen Yachts,
Bremen-Vegesack, Germany
Junell Mackey, ...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Scott Andrew Spencer
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Life is a game. Play along.
In the Grand Scheme of it all, we may very well be experiencing different realities.
These are definitely wacky times. We live in an age of orange newscasters and Burger King memorabilia.
I stepped off the deep end a long time ago and have been dog paddling for dear life ever since.
Nobody taught me to run from my problems. I had to learn that one on my own.
I give myself over to That Which Governs. I know Someone or Something is watching after me, keeping vigil.
Every day I thank my lucky stars and the Powers That Be for the presence of art collectors in this world. "Thank you," to everyone who owns and all future owners of these paintings. You are magical, wonderful people. If you're ever in Los Angeles, please look me up. I'll buy you some lunch.
Every canvas has an agenda--a life of its own separate from its maker, separate from thought or logic or reason--and to plot its course is only to interfere. To plan is to destroy. Trust the mess. All marks are good.
Oh, but the mutiny of scrutiny . . . if we could only leave it alone.
The self-taught artist has a great chance to be unique. Without knowledge of "rules" to hinder the hand or an instructor's style to imitate, what results is pure, entirely his own.
Contrary to popular belief, abstract art is "meaningful" on a parallel with representational art. Each of us sees differently, and individual responses to an abstract work of art are varied. An abstract work's "meaning" is oftentimes stronger and more personal for the viewer than it is in purely representational art where the subject matter is obvious and can only evoke a limited range of emotions.
Nowhere else in this existence have I found the freedom and exhilaration that oil painting affords.
Albert Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Welcome words to a daydreamer like me.
"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." Francis Bacon
Being gay is a gift, a variation on a theme. Love is too powerful to be shaped or confined.
At the moment, I'm loving the paintings of Cecily Brown, Dana Schutz, Raimonds Staprans and Paul Balmer. My all-time favorites are Max Beckmann, Milton Avery, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Joan Mitchell, Egon Schiele, Richard Diebenkorn, Alice Neel, Helen Frankenthaler and Lucien Freud.
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