Southwest Art Magazine - June 2009

I finally got my hands on the June 2009 issue of Southwest Art magazine... where I'm referred to as Christopher Scott. Still, I must say it is really an honor to be in the magazine! Click on the image to see it large and give it a read.

"Thank You" - Bubblegum Machine

40" x 30" — Oil/Canvas — 2009
• SOLD

Hanging for the month of June at the Elliott Fouts Gallery in Sacramento is my two-man show with Manuel Nunes.

This large bubble gum machine is in the show. I did this several months and it'll be nice to see it again during the reception for the show, during Sacramento's Second Saturday on June 13th. It's been some time since I have seen my work together hanging in a space. You get such a different perspective for paintings when you see them properly lit... and not in a messy studio.

Manual of Psychology

20" x 20" — Oil/Canvas — 2009
• SOLD

The Manual of Psychology belonged to a law student in 1905. My mother-in-law's mother-in-law was the housekeeper for the gentleman lawyer decades after his schooling. After he passed away, she was given all his books as they were something she admired.

I have the book sitting in front of me. As I casually flipped it open, it landed on a page discussing spacial perception. One hundred and four years ago the student scrawled the word chiaroscuro beside the phrase "The play of light and shade...". I find it curious that I'd flip open an ancient psychology text and by chance fall on a page explaining visual concepts used by artists — the use of light and shadow to create a sense of depth.

Is this book trying to tell me something?