SCOTT GREENWALT

 

Bio and CV

Curriculum Vitae

 Education

  • 1999 MFA, California College of the Arts
  • 1996 BFA, University of Central Missouri            

Exhibitions

 Solo

  • "Mutatis Mutandis" Belljar, San Francisco, CA - 2010
  • "Studies of Mutation" Stockholm, San Francisco, CA - 2009
  • "Under the Weight of Shattered Hands" Hotel Biron Gallery, San Francisco, CA - 2008
  • "Recent Work" Contraband Gallery, San Francisco, CA - 2007
  • “Inflatable Structures” Door 3 Gallery, Oakland, CA - 1998
  • “Atmospheric Conditions” Jacqueline Charno Gallery, Kansas City, MO - 1997

 Group

  • "What it is" Timezone Gallery, San Francisco - 2010
  • "Collaborative Permutations" Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA - 2009
  • "Well Done" Hotel Biron Gallery, San Francisco, CA - 2009
  • "Strawberry & Bacon (2)" 111 Minna, San Francisco, CA - 2008
  • "Box Lunch" The Box Factory, San Francisco, CA - 2008
  • "Green Show" Edo Salon + Gallery, San Francisco, CA - 2008 
  • "Black Bile Communion" Balazo Gallery, San Francisco, CA - 2008
  • "Animal Show" Contraband Gallery, San Francisco, CA - 2008
  • “Mean Street View” Contraband Gallery, San Francisco, CA - 2007
  • "Community Virology" LoBot Gallery, Oakland, CA - 2006
  • "Creep Show" Balazo Gallery, San Francisco, CA - 2003
  • “After the Roof Caved In” Bakery Loft, Oakland, CA - 2002
  • “Spit and Image” Eddie Rhoades Gallery, San Pablo, CA - 1999
  • “New Figuration” Late Show, Kansas City, MO - 1997
  • “RE:Members” Malin Gallery, Kansas City, MO - 1997

 Awards

Best of Show, Juried Citation Student Exhibit, UCM - 1996 and 1995

BIO

Scott Greenwalt was born in St. Louis, Missouri 1974.
Lives and works in San Francisco, CA

Statement

There is, admittedly, a macabre sensibility to my imagery; however, I see these morbid depictions in a romantic light. These are portraits of irregularity, malformation, deviation, degradation and disintegration. I see them as intimate celebrations of abnormality and imperfection. An asymmetrical face; a set of crooked teeth; a thinning crop of hair; sagging, withered, pocked and scarred flesh. I aim to peel back the veneered surface and magnify the grotesque. Within this, I am fascinated by the phenomenon of repulsion; the impulse to turn away from sensory input which we find  disquieting, both on an individual basis and on larger scales of culturally mitigated standards. I am interested in the psychological underpinnings of what makes an image simultaneously attractive and repellent.