SCOTT RISPIN

"As a visual artist and teacher, I am driven by design – color, form and composition. I look for these in the natural world, and desire to present these in new, different and unique ways."

I began my 30+ years of artistic pursuits developing logos, carving and hand painting signs in my hometown of South Lake Tahoe, California. I settled in Erie Pennsylvania in 1990, and have been a working professional in nearly every aspect of the commercial arts; from ad agencies to silk screening, custom graphics/signage to being a sought-after muralist ever since. I received my BA in Art Education from Mercyhurst University in 2003, and earned my MFA in painting from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 2008.

Style: Abstract Landscapes • Nature

Medium: Painting, Oil and Acrylic • Drawing

Additional Bio and contact information

SCOTT RISPIN

I have exhibited artwork in a variety of media from Pennsylvania to Seattle, California, Oregon and now here in Arizona, and have received awards in sculpture, painting, and public art projects. Since graduating with my MFA, I have been teaching a wide variety of art classes across five different Colleges and Universities, including two here in Arizona. I'm very excited to be living in Arizona and painting out in the incredible landscape. I am in a perpetual state of awe and wonder in the landscape. As a visual artist and teacher, I am driven by design – color, form and composition. I look for these in the natural world, and desire to present these in new, different and unique ways. My work has always been about attitudes, choices and the act of “seeing” versus merely “experiencing." It’s about the nature of reality and what we claim to know about it. I’m not interested in providing you familiar images of things you’ve seen in the ways you’ve always see them. Through color and texture, I emphasize the often overlooked aspects of our environment and its compositional structures, while downplaying or minimizing the obvious. The result is to force new ways of seeing … prompting surprising revelations about our world and ourselves. I want to change the way you look at things. I want you to see things differently … what if we were willing to actually do that?

Education

BA in Art Education, Mercyhurst University

MFA in painting, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

Galleries/Affiliations/Instructor

Arizona Fine Art Expo

Contact

SCOTT RISPIN

Email: gsrispin@aol.com

Website: www.scottrispin.com

Instagram: @scott_rispin