Contact Jordan Scott by e-mail: jordandscott@sbcglobal.net

By phone: 773-206-2824 (Evanston, Illinois)

Jordan Scott is an artist and writer from Evanston, Illinois. He is graduate from Indiana University with a degree in Religious Studies. He is also the owner, Director and Head Instructor of the Traditional Karate Center in Wilmette, Illinois.

www.traditionalkaratecenter.com

Jordan Scott ..b. 1968

Education

Indiana University, BA, Religious Studies, 1990
Bloomington, Indiana

Selected Exhibitions/Installations

Upcoming 2010 Wright Art Gallery, Northport, MI
2010 Judy Saslow Gallery, Recent Work, Chicago, IL
2009 Wright Art Gallery, Jordan Scott - New Work, Northport, MI
2008 Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago Scenes, Chicago, IL
2008 Tucker Gallery, Local Artists Show, Evanston, IL
2008 Loyola University, Crown Center Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Judy Saslow Gallery, Contemporary 3, Chicago, IL
2007 Bridge Miami, Wright Gallery, Miami, FL
2007 Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Wright Art Gallery, Jordan Scott - New Work, Northport, MI
2007 Tucker Gallery, Jordan Scott - New Work, Evanston, IL
2007 Beverly Arts Center, Jordan Scott - Recent Work, Chicago, IL
2007 Bridge Art Fair, Jordan Scott - Recent Work, Chicago, IL
2007 Beverly Art Center, ArtSide of the Box, Chicago, IL
2007 University of Wisconsin, 20th Parkside National Print Exhibition, Kenosha, WI
2006 Tucker Gallery, Small Works Show, Evanston, IL
2006 Beverly Arts Center, 30th Annual Exhibition, Chicago, IL
2006 Judy A Saslow Gallery, Scene in Chicago 2006, Chicago, IL
2006 Las Manos Gallery, Pulped Fiction: stories on paper, Chicago, IL
2006 Nova Chicago 2006, Jordan Scott - Echo Beach Series, Chicago, IL
2004 Wright Gallery, Jordan Scott - Elements, Northport, MI
2004 Rockford Art Museum, 2004 Midwestern Exhibition, Rockford, IL
2003 Las Manos Gallery, Jordan Scott - Recent Work, Chicago, IL
2003 Wright Gallery, Jordan Scott - Meridians, Northport, MI
2002 Ron Weiss Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2002 University of Wisconsin, 15th Parkside National Print Exhibition, Kenosha, WI
2001 Kansas City Artists Coalition, Push the Envelope II, Kansas City, MI
2001 Lydon Fine Art, Jordan Scott - Space Between the Rain, Chicago, IL
2000 Absolut VISION 5, Chicago, IL
2000 Lydon Fine Art, Jordan Scott - The Black River Series, Chicago, IL
2000 Lydon Fine Art, Gallery Artists, Chicago, IL
2000 SpaceTime Tanks, Chicago, IL - installation
1999 Lydon Fine Art, Gallery Artists, Chicago, IL
1999 Camel Back Community Corporate Center, Phoenix, AZ - installation

Selected Collections

Morgante Wilson Architects, LTD., Evanston, IL
Allscripts, Inc., Libertyville, IL
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc., Northbrook, IL
CBS, Channel 15, Phoenix, AZ
Magellan Development Group, Ltd, Chicago, IL
Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc, Chicago, IL
Camel Back Community Building, Inc., Phoenix, AZ
Art Source Inc., Phoenix, AZ
Kromelow and Tarre Inc., Chicago, IL
North Shore Life Skills Center, Winnetka, IL

Publications and Awards

Best of Show 2006 - Beverly Art Center's 30th Annual Exhibition - 2006
Chicago Tribune, Review- August 24, 2001
The Chicago Reader, August 2001
Gallery Guide - Midwest Edition, Cover, 2000
The Language of Literature, 1999
New American Paintings #17, 1998

Links

www.wrightartgallery.com

www.lasmanosgallery.com

www.traditionalkaratecenter.com

www.jsaslowgallery.com

www.rockfordartmuseum.org

www.beverlyartcenter.org

www.uso.org

www.theolatheposte.com

www.damscreenplay.com

www.carolinaraptorcenter.org

Ideas
When I was very young my mother took me to a press proofing for a printed product advertisement and I looked into the glass loop and saw all of the tiny dots that made up the solid colors. Traveling to downtown Chicago and looking up at all of the sides of the skyscrapers, the John Hancock Building, the Sear’s Tower, and seeing all of those windows, each with its own unknown world going on inside. Carl Jung and the collective unconsciousness. Ant colonies. Digital pixelation. Remote viewing. Breaking a world down into its component parts and/or observing the big picture created from the connection of all these parts. The Hindu concepts of the Atman and the Brahman. The interconnectedness of the universe. Slight variations on similar things. Neutrinos. The postage stamp collages, each composed of hundreds or thousands of similar elements, like the Atman, but creating an interconnected and interdependent whole much greater than the sum of its parts.

Materials
I always use materials outside of their normal context. These materials are used and arranged in ways that they were never really intended. They are identical or very similar items that can be accumulated and assembled in large numbers but have, or can be made to have, slight variations, or imperfections. Resin, like liquid glass, helps to create and hold together the interconnectedness of the individual elements, and at the same time heightens and helps to clarify and define the qualities of the individual elements.

Process
One at a time basic construction, with great repetition (like traditional Karate training), time consuming, slight variation upon close inspection, basic, slowly building-up something from one original action, element and gesture, repeated thousands of times, a meditation, an extreme focus on inward state of mind through repetitive outward activity, creating a new thing by destroying, altering, rearranging, or misusing another thing.