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The
Swing,
From the Fragonard Series Acrylic on canvasboard 10" x 8" SP #1 $300 (framed) |
Showering
Together
Oil on canvas 7" x 5" SP #2 $175 |
Three-way
After Glow
Acrylic on canvas 5" x 7" SP #3 $250 |
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Saturday
Afternoon
Oil on canvas 5" x 7" SP #4 $175 |
Washing
the Bird
Acrylic on canvas 6" x 4" SP #5 $150 |
Ascension
Conte, pastel & oil on paper 3' x 2' SP #6 $700 (framed) |
Scott Parent A child of the sixties and early seventies I grew up with the television on. TV, though interrupted by wholesome outdoor play and romps with other neighborhood kids, informed my early sense of culture and vision of the artistic lifestyle. The narrow behavioral confines of small town life in Indiana encouraged my fantastic imaginings of more glamorous worlds outside my own. When puberty hit along with Disco and my discovery of soft gay porn at the local Hallmark store, my Better Homes and Gardens/Family Circle childhood came to be replaced by a Playgirl/Blueboy adolescence. Naturally I knew little then how my pubescent inclination towards porn and glitz coupled with the influence of Mary Tyler More and Betty Crocker would instruct my work as a painter.
My art training at university began with Industrial design at Note Dame in my hometown, South Bend. From there I spent a year at the Heron School of Art in Indianapolis, only to return to South Bend for excellent drawing training at a small division of the University of Indiana. I rounded out my formal training doing figure drawing at the University of Connecticut.
I originally came to New York, in the mid-80's longing for a gay mecca. From New York I traveled to New Orleans where I was soon joined by my lover for two years of domestic bliss and the great experience of selling paintings on the streets of the French Quarter. We then returned to New York via Provincetown where we also sold paintings on the street. Painting on the street I found myself focusing more inward for painting concepts and my work began to reflect the fantasies of my childhood.
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The recent body of work is an exploration of the artist as homemaker, sexual object and creator within a happy and gay-centric world. Through these paintings heterosexual norms such as coupling and gender specific domestic roles including domination and submission are appropriated and reconstructed to accommodate a liberation from less than positive stereotypes of the gay male existence. At the heart of this exploration is my personal deliverance from a background of negativity, ignorance and silence towards homosexuality and gay sex. Moreover, this work expresses my refusal to accept the current trend toward a de-sexing of the gay male as a right of passage into "normal" existence. These themes are explored through the use of the figure in a variety of roles where expression, composition, color and light indicate a lack of shame or guilt that society may wish to impose upon the subjects depicted.
© Copyrights to all exhibited artworks belong to the artist. All rights reserved.
© 2000 - 2008 The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation
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