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ARTIST RESUME — SCOTT NELSON

STATEMENT: I’m fascinated by time and man’s relative understanding of it. The most accepted belief is that time is an endless one-way stream. Once a moment passes, it will never be repeated again in exactly the same way. When I’m making photographs, I might choose to put myself in a faraway and exotic place, or a few steps from my front door — that’s simply geography. But wherever I am, when I ready myself to take that picture, I step into the flowing stream and pick my moment as it speeds by. When I make a successful image, I hope to have both captured the essence of what was in front of me in that fraction of a second, and to have captured something that stands outside of time. In some way, I hope to make that moment last forever.

EXHIBITING MEMBER:

2014 Constellation Gallery, Tacoma, WA

2008 Speakeasy Gallery, Tacoma, WA

2009 253 Collective, Tacoma, WA

2010-2015 Proctor Art Gallery, Tacoma, WA

2017-Present Tacoma Artist Collective

SOLO EXHIBITION:

2019 El Tufo Restaurant, Tacoma, WA

2015 Fulcrum Gallery, Tacoma, WA

2009 Studio 16, Olympia Art Walk

2006 Starbucks Cafe, Gig Harbor, WA

GROUP SHOWS:

2019 TV Project contributor, Alma Mater, Tacoma, WA

2019 heART Show, El Tufo Restaurant, Tacoma, WA

2016 20th Juried Art Show, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA

2009 The Artist Next Door, DuPont, WA

2008 Olympia Art Walk, American Legion Building

2008 Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

STREET EXHIBITION:

2012 Art on the Ave., Tacoma, WA
2005 DuPont Holiday Arts & Crafts Bazaar, DuPont, WA
2000 Burlingame Art & Wine, Burlingame, CA

ARTS EMPLOYMENT:

2010-2012 Commercial Photographer – portraits, products, real estate
2008 Art Consultant – Gallery at Southcenter, Seattle WA
2007 Gallery Manager, Rebecca V. Gallery, Tacoma, WA

EDUCATION:

1981-1985 B.A. Visual Comm.; Minor: Creative Writing
California State University, Chico, CA

   Short Course Work:

   1988 Parsons School, Los Angeles, CA
   1985 College of the Arts, Laguna Beach, CA

   Workshops:
   2010 Palm Springs Photo Fest
   2005 The Art of People Photography, Coupeville Arts Center, Bainbridge Island, WA
   2000 Making a Living with Photography, San Francisco State University,