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Jamie Scandal
Web: www.jamiescandal.com
Medium and major concentration of work:
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Bio
Jamie Scandal is artist/singer/writer/actress in New York. She got a scholarship to Moore College of Art in Philly and later attended NYU, School of Visual Arts, and the Lee Strasburg Institute in New York. After years of work in the Fashion District as a screenprint designer for Sears and Disney, she became a freelance artist, doing murals, set design, tattoos,etc. as well as her own original works. She has performed
in a number of bands at various venues throughout the city, including starring in rock opera about the assassination of President Kennedy with the band Death of the Party. In 2001 she began studying singing and meditation with Broadway star, Betty Buckley. She also became interested in solo theater. In 2004,she wrote, directed, and starred in her own one woman show entitled AMERICAN SURVIVOR which also included songs that created and sang and a film that she shot and edited herself. Jamie currently resides on the Upper West Side and you can see her riding her bike (fast!) as she decides what interesting project she will tackle next!.
Artist Statement
from the exhibition at Pepper's Gallery in Tokyo
---This series of small works is me trying to express the vital/constantly changing energy of the New York Underground. The scenery here is always changing and, though many of the old school staples of 'punk attitude' are closing down, (like CBGBs)...nothing will ever be able to stop the artistic freedom that continues to thrive. The mounting of discarded tin can lids on sliced tree limbs was an effort to show how, especially in this city 'One Man's Trash Is another Man's Treasure'. How in NY it seems,people will make art out of anything. The juxtaposition of the garbage on top of tree parts was my way of representing man vs. nature in New York.. Skyskrapers vs.Central Park.. Yellow cabs vs. a tree lined reservoir and horseback riding path. Everywhere you look,man's creations and machines live side by side with nature-- creating sometimes beautiful, sometimes ugly; but always interesting landscapes. (December 10th to 25th, 2006)
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