Artwork for the Soul: Andrew F. Scott

Artwork is the window into our souls, the mirror of our lives. It offers classes in love and is a refuge from despair.

Our African ancestors knew its energy. Enslaved folks used it when the phrases wouldn’t come. From easy sketches to complicated configurations, our artwork has defined our moods, informed our tales and sustained our souls. Artwork has marked our place in life and our ideas of time. It has unwoven the tapestry of our desires and, certainly, set us free. SIGNATURE BRIDE salutes Black artists—women and men world wide linked by a typical thread. 

Whether or not fabricated from laser-cut cardboard, metal or 3-D printed urethane, the items created by Andrew F. Scott have the identical energy, the identical potential to inform a narrative and current an idea or preferrred. As an artist and affiliate professor of artwork and expertise on the College of Texas at Dallas, Scott places his expertise and abilities into observe, passionately instructing others to discover their very own creativity on the identical time he brings that zeal to life in bodily kind. 

Bucking the normal idea of artwork, Scott incorporates digital fabrication applied sciences into conventional superb arts practices and joins them with collective cultural beliefs. His work makes use of laser cutters, CNC mills, 3D printers and scanning applied sciences, leading to sculptures, installations and immersive visible experiences that use projection mapping. Over the course of greater than 30 years, Scott’s dynamic work has been executed in a mess of scales, supplies and digital platforms, and exhibited in galleries, museums and different venues throughout the globe, resulting in large renown. He has additionally created numerous everlasting public artwork initiatives and been a part of collaborations with architects and engineers for important neighborhood initiatives.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, the artist now lives in Dallas after spending time in varied cities and at prestigious campuses throughout the nation, leaving his mark on the artwork world each presently and thru the long run artists he influences. As a Black artist, Scott makes use of his work to provide voice to culturally important points, talking out with out saying a phrase.

In July, Scott took half in Artwork & Soul Hamptons in New York, an immersive cultural expertise celebrating BIPOC artists and that includes movie star leisure, an artwork stroll and a Black culinary expertise. Scott is represented by Los Angeles-based artwork seller Candice Taylor, proprietor of ART LUXE Gallery.