"...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

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

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.

2005 - Create-Fixate, Spring Arts Tower, Los Angeles,Ca.

2004 - Meet the Artists IV, The Pacific Club, Newport Beach, Ca.
Group Cityscapes, Greenwood Chebithes Gallery, Laguna Beach, Ca.
Getting to Know You, Backstreet Gallery, Santa Monica, 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
-Tarbut V Torah after school Art Instructor & UCI Writing Project Youth Art Instructor
-Private Art Instructor and Mentor for numerous adults and high school level artists
-Painting Instructor at Paint Lab, Santa Monica, CA
-Instructor of Art Experience, High School Painting, Academy of Art College
-Workshop Painting Instructor, Academy of Art College
-Drawing Instructor, Montecito Fine Art College of Design

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..