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Built Paintings — James P. Scott — Solo Exhibition RECEPTION: Sunday December 6 - 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. 2015 Curator Lydia Takeshita, LA Artcore: Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA Click to see: |
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LOS ANGELES IN PERSPECTIVE RECEPTION: Saturday July 5 - 7:00 – 11:00 p.m. 2014 Curated by Wendy Sherman Artists: Teale Hatheway, Iva Hladis, James P. Scott Click to see: |
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BonApetite! group art exhibition RECEPTION: Saturday October 16 - 8:00 – 11:30 p.m. 2013 Curated by Nouar, "BonApetite" presents an ecclectic collection of small paintings from many different artists all pertaining to food. Enjoy your meal! Artists: Molly Crabapple, John Purlia, Dark Vomit, JoKa, Scott Hove, Lang Leav, Bad Otis Link, Tim Gore, Dan Goodsell, David Eppen, Miss Mindy, David Russell Talbott, Misha, Dale Sizer, Richard Frost, Squeezebox Sam, James P. Scott, & more
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Art Shack! RECEPTION: Saturday, November 7, 2009 7-10pm Artists combined art and architecture in Laguna Art Museum’s group exhibition Art Shack guest curated by Greg Escalante. “In the last ten years we have noticed that many of the artists we have exhibited in the Museum’s popular culture shows have made some type of ‘shack’,” said Laguna Art Museum Director Bolton Colburn. Abandoning the rules of the art market and pressure to create saleable work, art shacks allowed the artists to create an experiential environment, narrowing the distinction between art and function, object and environment. Though few of us have any direct experience with living in shacks, they are at least present in our collective memory through post-apocalyptic films like District 9 or childhood games like MASH (Mansion-Apartment-Shack-House) that predict your future life and placement in social class. Along the West Coast, we’re quite familiar with surf shacks, date shacks, and Tiki-inspired shacks-romantic, boutique-like bungalows for the leisure visitor. However, architecturally, a shack is the lowest form of construction, meant to serve the most basic or immediate needs. By definition, a shack is a place of disrepair made of the most humble scrap materials like plywood, corrugated metal, and plastic. According to the United Nations, more than one billion people (one-sixth of the world’s population) live in slums-a settlement made of shacks. In every sense of the word, a shack is temporal. It even implies to the more humorous, subversive, and misbehaved-to “shack up”-or abandon social norms and “shack up in the mountains.” Click to see: |
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RECEPTION: Saturday, June 26th, 2010 7-10pm Grand Central Arts Forum, the support group for Grand Central Art Center (GCAC) revitalizes the hit exhibition, '100 Artists See Satan', a survey of contemporary artists and their interpretation of the supreme demon. Unlike the original exhibition, this iteration of the collection will be presented as a fundraiser, with works available for sale to the public. All proceeds will benefit future GCAC programs and exhibitions. Click to see: |
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Ikons! Theme and Variation; 70 New Paintings by James P. Scott RECEPTION: Saturday, November 7, 2009 7-10pm The work in “Ikons!” lives in the tension between surface and representation, the play between foreground and background, and an embodiment of sensation. Through his work, James shares with the viewer the beauty of simple treasures by painting portraits of objects that communicate symbolic and emotional states that are both personal and universal. These paintings are "pictographs" and individually, or combined in groups, they tell their story. They can be recombined to tell a different story or add to the one the artist has begun. Click to see: |
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RECEPTION: Sunday, August 2nd, 2009, 1:00 - 3:00 PM, artist talk at 2:00 PM Announcing an exhibition of original artwork by James P. Scott. Included in this exhibit are original oil paintings exploring themes of the Los Angeles urban landscape through an intense and voracious use of color. These dramatic paintings examine what it is to live, work and navigate around Los Angeles. James chooses to focus on familiar, apparently innocuous everyday elements, including street signs and palm trees. The artist turns these elements into symbols that exert their emotive energy to powerful effect, impelling the viewers' acknowledgment of beauty in the stressful everyday scene. Abstract and representational passages, layering of color, brushwork, texture, and build up of paint combine to create a rich history within the work — like the cracked and peeling surface of an old door providing us a glimpse into its' colorful past. Within this body of work are depictions of light, environment, and the passing of time. While these paintings draw from the artist's personal experience, wider, universal concerns also come into play: the common lot of humanity as it relates to "So Cal" residents and other urban dwellers as well. Each painting is like a stage set drawing viewers in and encouraging them to participate. Click to see: |
