Scott Ackerman: It’s All For You

Scott Ackerman: It’s All For You

EXHIBITION: March 3–April 16
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, March 4, 4-6pm

SOLO GALLERY

This solo exhibition includes a selection of paintings that Scott Ackerman made over the past two years as gifts or love letters to their eventual owners. Nearly all of the works are signed with the word Lovescott, thus acknowledging the imagined viewer’s act of looking and deriving meaning. As a self-taught artist, Ackerman’s work rejects the formal constraints of traditional Western art; instead, he looks to found objects with rough features as a point of origin, and allows the work itself to guide his process. The resulting paintings are raw, meditative, playful, and imbued with Ackerman’s love of making art.

About the Artist
Scott Ackerman is a self-taught artist from upstate New York. He has lived in the Hudson Valley for most of his life and his work has been exhibited at many galleries and exhibition spaces throughout the area, as well as in Germany, Los Angeles, Miami, Texas, and New York City. Ackerman has also had his artwork featured in TV shows, such as How to Make it in America, as well as feature length movies. In 2022, his art was in a film called Follow Her, which has been making its way across the world on the film festival circuit. Chronogram Magazine recently named Ackerman second place winner for best artist in the Hudson Valley. He currently lives with his wife and daughter in an old church in Kingston, New York.