Artist Statement
Scott Grimando is a New York based Imaginative Realism artists working in both traditional oil paint and the digital medium.
He is a fine artist, illustrator, photographer and writer, who’s work combines classical painting techniques with postmodern narrative subjects.
His work revolves around the female form as a metaphor for transformation and sacredness.
As a teenager he studied under Harold Stevenson, one of the few protégés of Norman Rockwell. Later he studied under the aviation and futurist painter Attila Hejja and fine artist and filmmaker Gianni Monteleone. Today he is a widely collected painter as well as a trend setting digital artist.
He’s been featured in numerous collections of the best in Imaginative Realism Including Spectrum, Infected By Art, Expose, Painter and The World of Faerie.
His imagery has graced the covers of dozens of books and magazines, blazing a path of innovation in the publishing industry over the past fifteen years.
Much of his recent symbolist work is about modern pressures and frustrations. The theme is a feeling of being mechanized and overwhelmed by technology.
The beauty of the human form is consumed by textures like metal, rust or stone.
The images are about breaking free, finding hope and maintaining our humanity.
Scott’s work tells a story on a deep emotional level sparking something deep and reverberating. It grabs the viewer forcing them to think about the meaning of the image.
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