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ABOUT THE ARTIST: Scott Waterman’s art has been featured in SOUTHERN ACCENTS, HOUSE & GARDEN AND INTERIOR DESIGN. Look for a new profile on Scott in a fall 2008 issue of SOUTHERN ACCENTS. A Southerner living now in Los Angeles, he is best known for his grand-scale murals commissioned by interior designers for projects from Charleston to China. His work can be described as aerie, rhythmic, ethereal, esoteric, fanciful, entrancing, scenic, exploratory, sinuous, naturalistic, historical and transcendental. Given his diverse abilities, Scott can produce luminous silver chinoiserie walls for an L.A. client of Windsor Smith is the only similarity to his simultaneous installation at the ultra-hip Standard Hotel on Sunset Blvd. In that decidedly contemporary piece, Eastern spirituality shimmered with a sense of bright, hot California sunsets. If there is any signature of Scott’s work, it is his wide-ranging exploration of styles, techniques and materials. He is just as capable with the computer as a tool for his diverse work as he is with brush and acrylics. His installations are similarly far-flung: East and West Coasts of the U.S., Italy, France, Uruguay and Chile. Despite his ease in the international world of art, he is egalitarian enough to engage in dialogues on art through Flickr. John Seven, a Flickr fan, describes Scott’s work as “At times atmospheric, sensual… oriental…delicate …and exuberant.” Seven adds, “Am I the only one who constantly forgets that these aren’t realist images?” Indeed, Waterman does not recreate a specific scene or image, but conceives a world different than that before him, yet one so believable that few viewers realize it doesn’t exist other than on his canvas. “His art draws you in with a sensual power akin to great music,” according to Seven. And that resounds with Scott who names Whistler as a hero. He says, “Whistler’s work is all about musicality. He named a number of his paintings after musical concepts, like ‘Harmony in Blue and Silver.’” And like Scott, Whistler painted interiors as well as making paintings and prints.
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