Artists Spotlight: Scooter LaForge!
About The Artist
Scooter LaForge (b. Las Cruces, New Mexico) is a New York-based artist who has lived in the East Village for the past 20 years. His unique style mines the canon of art history by infusing classical themes with a colorful sensibility. LaForge works in various media, including painting, sculpture, and drawing, and employs unorthodox techniques and striking iconic images. Often combine-like, his works are a walking journal of images where ideas are explored and refined. LaForge approaches artmaking intuitively, absorbing what surrounds him and working with agility and focus—drawing from a fertile inner emotional realm and an extensive painterly vocabulary.
His paintings have been shown at Howl Happening New York, Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York, the Friedrichshof Museum in Vienna, and the Spritmuseum/Absolut Art Collection in Sweden. In 2015, the artist was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. He holds a BFA in painting from the University of Arizona.
Check out this sneak peek of Scooter's incredible work. Bravo!
Dancers left-to-right: Taylor Ennen, Isoke Wright, Divieta Sahajwala, Miranda Stuck, Israel Harris, Imani Arnett, Julia Foti, and Cameron Arnold.
Photographed by Eryc Taylor
