Two Wawasee Grads Show Art in Indy
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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Seth Scantlen, son of Ron and Vicky Scantlen, Milford, knew from an early age that he wanted to create art. Reading was a struggle all through school, so drawing and painting were easy means of communication for him. He was in a band, too, singing and playing guitar.
Not one to be kept down by his learning disabilities, he graduated from Wawasee High School in 1998. From there he went on to receive a bachelor’s degree from Columbus College of Art and Design. He considers his true accomplishment, however, acquiring a master’s degree in fine arts from Columbia University in New York, N.Y.
Today Scantlen works from his home in Brooklyn. He is married to Abbie Klenzman, whom he met while going to school in Columbus. Together they have a son, 2-year-old Cassidy.
According to Scantlen, his work “aims to use painting and drawing as a medium expressive of the fluidity of identity.”
“My images hover between hallucination and careful formal abstraction,” he said. “I try to achieve technical rigor while engaging in a visualization of intense subjective breakdown: maintaining a constant tension between control and chaos.”
Jeremy Tubbs, son of George and Charlie Tubbs, Tippecanoe Lake, graduated a few years after Scantlen and the two knew each other through mutual friends. But rather than going off to college, he continued his education “in travel and experiences,” he explained.
Today he and five others operate an art gallery in downtown Indianapolis where they create their own works, sell art and records and present a guest artist every month. That is how Scantlen’s gallery show came to be.
The two talked recently in New York, so when Seth was offered the gallery for a one-person show, he jumped at the chance to display his art near his hometown. It gave his local friends and family a chance to attend one of his gallery shows without traveling too far. Friday night he welcomed those guests to a grand-opening reception.
The art will be on display at the collective until the end of the year. General Public Collective is located at 1060 Virginia Ave., Indianpolis, and is open noon to 9 p.m. daily. For more information go to www.general-public.us or facebook.com/general public
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Seth Scantlen, son of Ron and Vicky Scantlen, Milford, knew from an early age that he wanted to create art. Reading was a struggle all through school, so drawing and painting were easy means of communication for him. He was in a band, too, singing and playing guitar.
Not one to be kept down by his learning disabilities, he graduated from Wawasee High School in 1998. From there he went on to receive a bachelor’s degree from Columbus College of Art and Design. He considers his true accomplishment, however, acquiring a master’s degree in fine arts from Columbia University in New York, N.Y.
Today Scantlen works from his home in Brooklyn. He is married to Abbie Klenzman, whom he met while going to school in Columbus. Together they have a son, 2-year-old Cassidy.
According to Scantlen, his work “aims to use painting and drawing as a medium expressive of the fluidity of identity.”
“My images hover between hallucination and careful formal abstraction,” he said. “I try to achieve technical rigor while engaging in a visualization of intense subjective breakdown: maintaining a constant tension between control and chaos.”
Jeremy Tubbs, son of George and Charlie Tubbs, Tippecanoe Lake, graduated a few years after Scantlen and the two knew each other through mutual friends. But rather than going off to college, he continued his education “in travel and experiences,” he explained.
Today he and five others operate an art gallery in downtown Indianapolis where they create their own works, sell art and records and present a guest artist every month. That is how Scantlen’s gallery show came to be.
The two talked recently in New York, so when Seth was offered the gallery for a one-person show, he jumped at the chance to display his art near his hometown. It gave his local friends and family a chance to attend one of his gallery shows without traveling too far. Friday night he welcomed those guests to a grand-opening reception.
The art will be on display at the collective until the end of the year. General Public Collective is located at 1060 Virginia Ave., Indianpolis, and is open noon to 9 p.m. daily. For more information go to www.general-public.us or facebook.com/general public
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