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Jordan Scott

Chicago, IL, United States

About | b.1968 Jordan Scott is an award winning Chicago based artist and photographer. Represente...

About the artist

Jordan Scott

Joined In 2010

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About the artist

Jordan Scott

Joined In 2010

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(10 Followers)

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About | b.1968

Jordan Scott is an award winning Chicago based artist and photographer. Represented by art galleries nationwide, he also taught photography at several prestigious art centers in the Chicago area and at Robert Morris University. His mixed-media artwork pays homage to his beliefs in the interconnectedness of the universe and inspired by theories of the collective unconscious and Scott’s 35 years of martial arts training and teaching. He received a degree in Religious Studies from Indiana University and a Full Certificate from the Chicago Photography Academy.

Artist Statement

When I was young, my mother took me to a press proofing for a printed product advertisement. Looking into the glass loop, I was amazed to see that the seemingly solid colors were actually tiny individual dots. Sometime later, while visiting the Art Institute of Chicago, I encountered Georges Seurat’s, A Sunday on LA Grande Jatte, and was introduced to the technique of pointillism.

I often use, or reuse, materials outside their normal context and that can be acquired in large quantities. This allows me freedom from overthinking the materials or the process, which is one at a time construction with great repetition. Currently, I am using cance...

Indiana University, BA, Bloomington, Indiana, 1990
Chicago Photography Academy, Degree, 2015

Selected Exhibitions/Installations

2022 Simon Breitbard Fine Arts, Trunk Show, San Francisco, CA
2022 Evanston Made, Photography Exhibition, Evanston, IL
2022 LKM Art & Alma Art, Threaded Together, Chicago, IL
2022 Sergio Gomez Curates, What’s Left Behind, Chicago, IL
2022 Fermilab, Be a Part of Particles, Batavia, IL
2021 Simon Breitbard Fine Arts, Trunk Show, San Francisco, CA
2021 Evanston Art Center, Evanston Made, Evanston, IL
2020 Blue Gallery, Wonder Wall -Small Works Show, Kansas City, MO
2020 Simon Breitbard Fine Arts, Trunk Show, San Francisco, CA
2020 Artspace 8 Gallery, Money, Chicago, IL
2020 Evanston Art Center, Faculty Exhibition, Evanston, IL
2020 1100 Florence Gallery, Love Evanston, Evanston, IL
2020 Christopher Art Gallery, Prairie State College, Beyond Pedagogy, Chicago Heights, IL
2019 Artspace 8 Gallery, Jordan Scott-Mandala, Chicago, IL
2019 South Suburban College, Oblique - Photographs by Jordan Scott, South Holland, IL
2019 Evanston Art Center, Vortex Series, Evanston, IL
2019 1100 Florence Gallery, Oblique - Streetscapes of Chicago, Evanston, IL
2019 Evanston Art Center, Evanston Made, Evanston, IL
2018 Blue Gallery, Wonder Wall, Kansas City, MO
2018 Simon Breitbard Fine Arts, Small Works Show, San ...

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