Scott Yeskel

 

"...Yeskel behind the wheel ranges over a terrain of the mind where night is just around the corner and the spots swimming before your eye indeed coalesce into lyric scenarios of abstract light town asunder from your own interior kaleidoscope."
- R.B. Straus

Los Angeles based artist Scott Yeskel has been painting his love/hate affair with Southern California since his relocation to the area six years ago. Traffic snarls, boxy apartments and occasional car crashes often act as Yeskel’s muse.

It is when Scott switches to his abstract work, his love affair with the spirit and color of the West appear. That’s right, Scott paints both abstract and representational landscapes switching back and forth using many of the same colors and themes. Inspired by mid-century masters such as Diebenkorn and Richter yet original in both content and style, Yeskel’s oil paintings are true statements of contemporary California living.

BIO

  • 1977

    • Born Montclair, N.J.

  • 2002

    • Graduated Academy of Art College, San Francisco, BFA

SOLO SHOWS

  • 2011

    • Mapping California, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco Ca
    • Wanderlust, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, Ca.

  • 2009

    • L.A. To Ventura and In Between, Vita Art Center, Ventura, Ca

  • 2008

    • Disconnections, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, Ca.

  • 2008

    • L.A. to S.F. with Love, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.

  • 2007

    • Mass Transit, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, Ca.

  • 2006

    • Maps, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, Ca.

  • 2005

    • Trouble in Paradise, Bedlam Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.

  • 2004

    • Moving On, Pringle Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa.

  • 2003

    • Two Roads, Pringle Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa.

Selected Group Shows

  • 2011

    • ART-MRKT-SF, SFDC Concourse, San Francisco, Ca.

  • 2010

    • Art San Diego, Hilton San Diego Bayfront, San Diego, Ca.

  • 2009 & 2010

    • L.A Art Show, Los Angeles Convention Center, L.A., Ca.

  • 2008

    • Auction 100, Laguna Beach Art Museum, Laguna Beach, Ca.
    • Aqua Art Miami, Aqua Hotel, Miami, Fla
    • Red Dot Fair, Park South Hotel-New York City, New York

  • 2006

    • Venice Art Walk Juried Auction, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, Ca.
    • Fin, Bedlam Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.

  • 2004

    • Meet the Artists IV, The Pacific Club, Newport Beach, Ca.
    • Group Cityscapes, Greenwood Chebithes Gallery, Laguna Beach, Ca.
    • Scott Yeskel / Brandon Smith, Hotel Biron Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.

  • 2003

    • Around Town, Pringle Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa.

  • 2002

    • Academy Spring Annual, Academy of Art, San Francisco, Ca.

  • 1998

    • Juried Luggage Show, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.

Professional Experience

  • Abstract Painting Instructor, Kline Academy of Art, Los Angeles, Ca.
  • Tarbut V Torah after school Art Instructor & UCI Writing Project Youth Art Instructor
  • Instructor of Art Experience, High School Painting, Academy of Art College
  • Workshop Painting Instructor, Academy of Art College

Notable Collections

  • Pennsylvania Power and Light, Allentown, PA., Novo Nordisk, Princeton N.J., Mars Foods-Uncle Bens Rice, Los Angeles, CA., Fox T.V., Los Angeles, CA., Scatter Light Productions, Beverly Hills, CA. Friedman & Solomon LLP, Beverly Hills, CA..