FRANKLIN COUNTY ART ALLIANCE ANNUAL EXHIBITION, June 10 - June 16, 2022
New works to be exhibited include:
"The View"
24" x 36"
Mixed Media on Canvas
This will be the world unveiling of the first landscape painting done
using adhesive mortar as both the primer for the canvas and the medium!
It reflects light in a more complex manner, creating a great illusion of depth!
"Galaxie 9"
30" x 40"
Mixed Media on Canvas
"The Last Watering Hole"
"16 x "23"
Mixed Media
HAGERSTOWN MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 2019 CUMBERLAND VALLEY ARTISTS EXHIBITION
"Climate Change Denied"
40" x 30"
Mixed Media on Canvas
NANCY HORTON HEEFNER MEMORIAL ART SHOW 2019
The 14th Annual Nancy Horton Heefner Memorial Art Show opened September 11, 2018, on the campus of The Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, PA. The show is held annually at the Burgin Center.
This was my 3rd year participating in the show which limited the entries to one per artist.
I showed an adhesive mortar wash painting done in the style of Mark Rothko and titled it "Approaching Infinity".
NANCY HORTON HEEFNER MEMORIAL ART SHOW 2018
The 13th Annual Nancy Horton Heefner Memorial Art Show opened September 9, 2018, on the campus of The Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, PA. The show includes more than 60 works from artists from Franklin and Fulton counties in Pennsylvania and Washington County in Maryland. Sydney Caretti (fine-arts faculty member and the Academy’s director of galleries) was the curator of the show, which is open to the public during hours the Burgin Center is in operation.
This was my 2nd year participating in the show which this year was done in "salon style". My two entries were the contrived photograph, "Fractured Perfection" and the greenish adhesive mortar mixed-media work, "Galaxie Three".
My violin parts photograph lower left center and my
green mixed-media abstract high right center
Part of the rainy-day crowd
"Fractured Perfection " "Galaxie Three"
NANCY HORTON HEEFNER MEMORIAL ART SHOW 2017
Sponsored by the Shippensburg Historical Society, the annual show for regional artists included two adhesive painting works. Held in the Burgin Center for the Arts at the Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, PA, the works will be on display through October 5, 2017.
GREENCASTLE, PA RETROSPECTIVE SHOW
The Greencastle Area Arts Council www.greencastlearts.org selected me to display my work at the Lillian Besore Public Library from July 7 to August 10, 2014. The title of the show was:
"New Surfaces & Mixed-media
1967 - 2014"
1967 - 2014"
Artist working with Greencastle Area Arts Council President, Lori Facchina,
preparing labels for mounting on the display wall, Lillian Besore Library
preparing labels for mounting on the display wall, Lillian Besore Library
by Leighton R. Scott, Greencastle, PA
I am a former NASA space scientist who also worked for NOAA in their weather-satellite program. During graduate school, I started experimenting with abstract art after being thrilled seeing the large paintings of the New York abstract artists of the 60's on exhibit at the National Gallery. I took art and design courses in the late 70's at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland, where I specialized in classical landscape painting.
What started my journey of producing unique surfaces ( and set me apart from other artists ) was the discovery in 1979 that I could use the home-improvement material, mortar adhesive, as a medium for my acrylic paints. As far as I know, there are very few artists worldwide who have used this special material for art and sculpture. Not only have I produced mixed- media works representing strange and unique surfaces of imaginary planets, but I have produced the “Galaxie” series of larger works (spelling borrowed from Ford's automobile line) that look like glittering night skies. I also do mixed-media abstract works on watercolor paper.
This exhibit was a limited retrospective of my journey, a journey that was expanded to include digital photography once that technology began to mature. Then, I tried adapting my mixed-media techniques to build model railroad scenery and found that it worked extremely well. The last photograph of a model railroad area that I built for the Waynesboro Model Railroad Club shows the combining of landscape painting, mixed-media sculptural forms for the hills, and digital photography.
CHARITY AUCTION, CHAMBERSBURG, PA
I donated the work, "Galaxie T5" for the "Art from the Heart" auction held April 6, 2014, at the AG Heritage Center in Chambersburg, PA. This annual auction benefits The Franklin County 4-H Therapeutic Riding Center.
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| Sold at benefit auction |
Leighton Scott, April 6, 2014, in Chambersburg, PA
autographing his artist history photo book for winning bidder
Included in the auction is a copy of the book, Art and Design History of Leighton Scott, and a newly design certificate of authenticity that includes a custom-designed stamp so that it cannot be easily forged.
The charity auction to benefit the 4-H therapeutic riding center was thinly attended (possibly due to the $10 admissions fee), but "Galaxie T5" was one of only fourteen that was selected for the live auctions. There were two bidders, and the winner was a writer who is having a new contemporary style town home built in Frederick MD for herself and her husband.
The photo, taken by photographer, Linda Spero, of Scotland, PA, shows the artist autographing the book about the history of his art in front of the sold painting. Investors in paintings selling for more than $500 receive an autographed copy of a book that details the history of my art.
PARTICIPATION IN "SHAPE" GALLERY SHOWS, SHIPPENSBURG, PA
I have participated in several annual abstract shows at this gallery over the last few years.
REPRESENTATION AT THE BENJAMIN ART GALLERY
Until the leading art gallery in Hagerstown closed, I was represented in both the gallery's photography and painting galleries. One of the owners bought a copy of my prize-winning photograph, "The Gaze" as a gift for his son.
I have participated in several annual abstract shows at this gallery over the last few years.
REPRESENTATION AT THE BENJAMIN ART GALLERY
Until the leading art gallery in Hagerstown closed, I was represented in both the gallery's photography and painting galleries. One of the owners bought a copy of my prize-winning photograph, "The Gaze" as a gift for his son.
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