Creative Growth is pleased to participate in the 2023 edition of Independent Art Fair, featuring a solo presentation of work by William Scott.
Independent Art Fair
May 11-14, 2023
Spring Studios
50 Varick Street
New York, NY 10013
Learn more at www.independenthq.com
ABOUT WILLIAM SCOTT
Born 1964 in San Francisco, California
Creative Growth Art Center, 1992-present
William Scott is a highly skilled self-taught painter and social theorist who creates utopian visions of the past, present, and future. Scott’s fundamental interest lies in reimagining public and private life as a more peaceful and positive existence. This manifests in his paintings in several genres; self-portraits, architectural renderings, portraits of pop culture icons, and imaginings of a peace-loving future.
While deeply rooted in personal history, Scott’s paintings address wider questions of citizenship, community, and cultural memory. For Scott, painting is a transformative as well as documentary tool. His works are a way to recraft personal narrative, as in his “another life” self–portraits, in which Scott becomes “Billy the Kid,” an athletic LA Lakers basketball star or does not bear the scars of a childhood injury. His portraits, predominantly of black figures, encompass African American political leaders and pop icons such as Prince, Kamala Harris, Oprah, and Janet Jackson, but also record members of his church, family, and residents of his native San Francisco.
