Larry Scott
American (b.1957- )
Artistic expression has always been a vital part of Larry Scott's
way of life. Born in Columbia, South Carolina and raised in
Newark, New Jersey, as a child Larry was taught the value and
skill of the drawn line by his father, the late Walter Scott. That
skill remains at the forefront of his ever-evolving work. Larry's first canvases were deconstructed paper bags, his first easel, the kitchen floor of the family home. That ethos of enthusiasm and easy joy also remains with him.
As a young teenager Scott discovered and developed a second passion in the martial arts. During the next two decades, Shotokan (the way of the sword) took him extensively throughout North America, and internationally to Japan, Holland, Australia and Puerto Rico. Like Rocky Marciano, Larry Scott won the championship of every tournament he ever entered. In training to perfect his skills he developed the focus, prescience, and ineluctable vitality that he continues to bring to the canvas.
After retiring from athletics Scott pursued his passionate appreciation for jazz music. As a practitioner of the saxophone, he was influenced deeply by Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Dexter Gordon, and John Coltrane. For the past decade, he has returned fulltime and with unmatched dedication to his first love, the visual arts. He engages in an eclectic mix of inks, watercolors, oils, acrylics and mixed media. His works are deeply emotional and political without being overtly so. A significant element of his sensibility emerges from jazz music and the written word-composing with a Baldwinian fire in a mood indigo, as the invisible man, live from beneath the underdog.
As he continues to explore the body, the psyche, urban space, and relationships of color, Scott's uncompromising but humanist life philosophy and virtuosity of expression has earned him no small degree of renown and has placed him in the center of a growing, vital artistic movement in Baltimore, Maryland.
Larry Scott lives in Baltimore with his wife and four children.
SELECTED ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS 2002
Pope of Charles Village
Sassafras Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
One Man Show Larry Scott
Zoe's Garden Art gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Larry Scott's Work
Donna's Mount Vernon, Baltimore, Maryland
Cuppa Cabana Presents Larry Scott
Cuppa Cabana, Baltimore, Maryland
Painting's and Drawings
Dougherty's Baltimore, Maryland
SELECTED ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS 2001
Vacant-See Art Showcase
Vacant Store Fronts Exhibits, Baltimore, Maryland
Great Scott
Morgan Monceaux Artist Trust, Providence, Rhode Island
New Blood
Langston Hughes Gallery, San Francisco, California
SELECTED ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS 2000
Larry Scott's Work
Morgan Monceaux Gallery, Seattle, Washington
SELECTED ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS 1999
Street Vision
Vacant Store Fronts Exhibits, Baltimore, Maryland
Originals?
Paloma's, Baltimore, Maryland
Portraits
MCI Gallery, San Francisco, California
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS EXHIBITIONS 2003
Experiencing Black History Through Music
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS EXHIBITIONS 2002
UP The Art Show
Jeffrey Kent Art Source, Baltimore, Maryland
First Annual Major Abstract International Invitational
Intercultural Museum Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Group Show
Craig Flinner Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Free Hung Exhibition
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland
Second Annual Nude Night
Sassafras Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS EXHIBITIONS 2001
Group Show
Craig Flinner Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
The Feeling of Jazz
Eubie Blake Jazz Institute and Cultural Museum
Baltimore, Maryland
Hexagon
Sassafras gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Art Celebration
Jeffrey Kent Art Source, Baltimore, Maryland
Floor
Decker Gallery Art Scape 2001, Baltimore, Maryland
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS EXHIBITIONS 1998
Group Show
Around The Coyote Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS EXHIBITIONS 1997
Three The Hard Way
Designsmith Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS EXHIBITIONS 1992
Festival of Fools
Paradox, Baltimore, Maryland
City Visions
The Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Handoriginals Group Show
Handoriginals Contemporary Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
