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Sam Scott has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally in his 55-year career and first artists to represent New Mexico at the Whitney Museum Biennial of Contemporary Art in New York City.His work is in many private and public collections. He is one of five artists in various media who have been chosen to represent the Capital Art Collection as a “State Treasure”, in the Capital Building of Santa Fe.
Scott’s art transcends labels. At heart, he is a nature painter and colorist, but his style is highly personal and poetic, and can be best described as lyrical abstraction. His teachers Grace Hartigan, Clifford Still, Philip Guston, Salvatore Scarpitta, and David Hare deeply influence his work, while great European masters such as Velazquez inspire his every brush stroke. He is and has always been a painter in pursuit of beauty.