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Artist Statement:
Scott Ferry
www.scottferry.com
I am a Los Angeles-based
artist, who works between both
Los Angeles and Montreal. My
work is inspired by spiritism,
dark eroticism, subtle
disturbances, and nightmarish
reflections. My current series
(Charnel Grounds and Sickly
Playthings) is a personal
journey teeming with
metaphors, beautiful and
painfully violent experiences,
the sadistic, the masochistic,
and funny innuendos. I have
exhibited in solo and group
shows in California, Arizona,
Washington, and Quebec,
Canada.
I am inspired a lot by
surrealism, dadism, and other
various automatic and material
altering art philosophies. As
well Darger, Austin Osman
Spare, and Rosaleen Norton.
Though I can’t quite say if my
work really engenders those
ideas in a physical way, but
more possibly on an internal
level. I have begun to
include particular animals and
spirits (in various forms)
into my work as a way of
highlighting my inner
character on various levels
and how I perceive and react.
My drawings, as I call them,
are a mix of pigment ink, gel
inks, and markers on Arches
paper. I have been slowly
incorporating water colors as
well into this mix. The
framing I have begun to
include in the process by
searching ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
2004 “Bela Lugosi’s Dead, it’s
magic time! ”, Orange County
Weekly, California, 18 juin,
2004.
2003 “Scott Ferry, une artiste
en technique numérique mixte”,
Le Magazine Île des Soeurs,
Montréal, 2 octobre 2003.
2000 “Femme Démoniaque”, M.
Cyril, Passeport de Nuit,
Montréal, 6 avril 2000.
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Collections:
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Commissions:
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Exhibitions for Scott Ferry:
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1971 Born in California.
Lived and worked in Montréal Canada from 1994 to 2002. California from 2002 to 2004. Now lives in Montreal, Canada since 2005.
Solo Exhibitions:
2004 Norwalk Regional Library, Norwalk, California, U.S.A.
2004 "Witch World," Roberts Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
2004 "Dark Pathway," Perihelion Arts Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
2004 "Red Crush," Pece-Arieas Gallery, Santa Ana, California, U.S.A.
2003 "Between Spaces,"Centre Culturel de Verdun, Montréal, Canada.
2002 "Witch Way," Second Cup, (Decelles and Queen Mary), Montreal.
2001 "Hagalaz," Second Cup. (St. Denis on the plateau), Montréal.
2000 "Demoness... ever-after sweetness," Café Griffintown, Montréal.
Group Exhibitions:
2004 Halloween Show, Pece-Arieas Gallery, Santa Ana, CA, U.S.A.
2004 Nightmare on 18th Street Event, 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, California.
2004 California Fine Art, California State Fair, Sacremento, California.
2004 Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, California.
2004 "The Lost Women of Juarez", Chapman University, Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, California.
2004 Topanga Canyon Gallery, juried open, Topanga, California.
2003 California State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, CALEXPO, Sacramento, California.
2003 New Photography Exhibit, Millard Sheets Gallery, LA County Fair, California.
2003 Visual Arts Photography Exhibit, Orange County Fair, California.
2003 Perihelion Arts presents Scott Ferry, John John Jesse, Isabel Samaras, Perihelion Arts Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona.
2002 “DPI Digitally Propelled Ideas,” W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California.
2002 “New Photography Exhibition 2002,” Millard Sheets Gallery at the Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, California.
2002 “Ecstasy: Mind, Body, Spirit,” Orange County Center for Contemporary Art. Santa Ana, California.
2000 “Chaotica,” Portland, Oregon.
1999 “Hassan I Sabbah's Electric Menagerie,” Douglas Art School, Murphysboro, Illinois.
1998 “Carobnica: beyond the pale,” TechnOboro, Montréal, Canada.
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