Queen Creek resident and landscape painter Scott Rispin will showcase his newest artworks at the Arizona Fine Art Expo this month in Scottsdale.
The artwork will be on exhibit at the Arizona Fine Art Expo in Scottsdale, located at 26540 N. Scottsdale Road, and will be on view through March 24. The exhibit is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.
During the exhibit, the artist will be on site daily to greet visitors and discuss his unique three-dimensional painting technique with art collectors and interior designers.
Rispin applies his one-of-a-kind technique to create abstract landscape paintings that are informed by nature. His exhibit includes new original paintings as well as a brand new line of limited and open-edition prints.
“I am in a perpetual state of awe and wonder at the landscape,” Rispin said. “As a visual artist and teacher, I am driven by design, color, form and composition. I look for these elements in the natural world and then reinterpret my impressions of nature, presenting them in new, different and unique ways.”
Rispin is a highly accomplished artist who received his MFA in painting from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 2008. He has been presented awards for his achievements in sculpture, painting and public art projects.
As a professor he taught painting, drawing, visual studies and art appreciation at Penn State Erie, Behrend College, for 11 years and taught art classes at the Erie Art Museum.
Originally from California, he arrived in Arizona in 2020 and accepted a position as an art professor at Yavapai College in Prescott. Over the past year he entered semi-retirement to explore becoming a full-time artist. The exhibit at the Arizona Fine Art Expo marks his first exhibit of works as a dedicated full-time artist.
For this show, he has created a dynamic and exciting new body of work of original abstract landscape oil paintings featuring his unique, three-dimensional sculptural technique.
Rispin works from his studio in Queen Creek and over the past few years his artwork has been featured in exhibitions across the country, including in California, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Seattle. In Arizona he has exhibited in Prescott and Scottsdale.
For more information, visit scottrispin.com or arizonafineartexpo.com.
