Audience (2019) Painting by Scott Spencer

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The painting will be shipped rolled in a tube. This is my Guernica, my Vegetarian Manifesto. It took me far too long to become an herbivore. I've eaten oodles of animals in my lifetime and am going to cut them some slack the rest of the way. In the back of my mind it never felt right. These poor, defenseless creatures don't stand a chance[...]
The painting will be shipped rolled in a tube. This is my Guernica, my Vegetarian Manifesto. It took me far too long to become an herbivore. I've eaten oodles of animals in my lifetime and am going to cut them some slack the rest of the way. In the back of my mind it never felt right. These poor, defenseless creatures don't stand a chance against us clever, cunning humans. I couldn't kill my own food and letting someone else do it for me doesn't feel right either. We are grocery store mafia, putting a hit on the next animal when we pull meat off the shelves. I'm going through my mid-life crisis and finally coming to the realization that humans are the most disruptive, controlling thing upon this wonderful Earth. We breed creatures for our consumption. The animals we don't eat we displace, domesticate and manipulate to our liking. We make sure humans keep procreating and we make sure other creatures don't make too many of themselves. What other living thing wants us around? We might have a symbiotic relationship with flowers and plants (they sometimes rely on us for water) but other than that, I can't think of anything that Homo sapiens doesn't just flat out exploit. Maybe if we were kinder to animals, we'd be nicer to each other.

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(American painter, born 1970) Scott A. Spencer loves to listen to music and paint daily. He takes inspiration from his immediate surroundings, real or imagined, and paints into the wee hours of the[...]

(American painter, born 1970)

Scott A. Spencer loves to listen to music and paint daily. He takes inspiration from his immediate surroundings, real or imagined, and paints into the wee hours of the night. Scott began painting full time after a brush with cancer in 1999. In his early years, he was represented by renowned gallerist and art dealer Biljana Grcic-Beran through Galeria Jan in La Jolla, California, and was admitted into the Pasadena Society of Artists in 2004. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California, with his husband and their feline daughter, Kona.

RESUME

Education
California State University Long Beach (Long Beach, CA)
Associate in Arts Degree, Orange Coast College (Costa Mesa, CA)

Affiliations
Pasadena Society of Artists

Selected Exhibitions
2014 Saatchi Gallery, London "Inspired by Kandinsky" curated by Bridget Carron
2013 Saatchi Gallery, London "Art from Los Angeles" curated by Rebecca Wilson
2009 Gallery Matsui—“Grand Opening” (San Gabriel, CA)
2008 i-5 Gallery—“$2 Bills” (Los Angeles, CA)
JFerrari Gallery—“Body of Art” (Atwater Village, CA)
2007 Bonaventure Hotel—“Sense of Community” (Los Angeles, CA)
Terra Gallery—“Open Up” (Columbus, OH)
Essence of Living (Hermosa Beach, CA)
The Loft—“Paint 9 Décor” (Eagle Rock, CA)
2006 Viva Gallery—“81st Annual Exhibition” (Sherman Oaks, CA)
BrenArt—Solo (Pasadena, CA)
i-5 Gallery—“Art World Poker” (Los Angeles, CA)
Gregg Gallery and Frames—“AEG Artists” (Bexley, OH)
Whites Gallery—“Springtime” (Montrose, CA)
BIA Parade of Homes—“New Haven Homes” (Westerville, OH)
Fina—“6 Up” (Pasadena, CA)
Carlotta’s Passion Gallery—“Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out” (Eagle Rock, CA)
2005 The Velvet Room—“Third Anniversary” (Pasadena, CA)
A Shenere Velt Gallery—“Artifacts of Activism/Images of Peace” (Los Angeles, CA)
Celebrity Centre International—“Rose Variety Arts Show” (Hollywood, CA)
Pazzaz—“Paint and Shoot”, exhibit with photographer Matt Harbicht (Silver Lake, CA)
Space-LA—“3rd Annual Ken Dunipace Memorial Art Show” (Los Angeles, CA)
Surrounding Art—“Gallery Artists” (Pasadena, CA)
Creative Arts Gallery—“PSA 80th Anniversary Exhibition” (Burbank, CA)
Galeria Jan—“Gallery Artists” (La Jolla, CA)
2004 Fine Artists Factory—“PSA 79th Annual Juried Exhibition” (Pasadena, CA)
Altadena LCC—“PSA New Members Exhibition” (Altadena, CA)
Period Gallery—“Color II” (Lincoln, NE)
Friends Gallery—“Make Art, Not War” (Pasadena, CA)
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery—“Open Call” (Los Angeles, CA)
Period Gallery—“Faces III” (Lincoln, NE)
Period Gallery—“Abstraction VII” (Lincoln, NE)
Pacer Communities—“Quattro Blu” (Pasadena, CA)
Period Gallery—“Landscape IV” (Lincoln, NE)
Period Gallery—“Contemporary VI” (Lincoln, NE)

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