Scott Wallin's art is represented by Ryan James Fine Arts Gallery in Seattle, WA, USA. To purchase the original pieces please contact Ryan James Fine Arts Gallery at http://www.ryanjamesfinearts.com/ . Scott is also represented by the Central Newberry Galleria de Arte in Buenos Aires, Argentina. http://www.centralnewbery.com.ar/

Scott began creating art works at an early age, eventually earning a BS in Fine Arts at Portland State University, and later working in the graduate program at the Rhode Island School of Design.

While attending university in the late 1970s Scott was studying quantum physics, and in a number of the books photographic images taken at large particle accelerator facilities in places like Fermi Lab, CERN, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator, inside "bubble chambers" began to interest him. To Scott, studying those images brought the equations of quantum physics to life. When he went to the Rhode Island School of Design for graduate school, he started drawing the Particle Track Series based on the "track" signatures left by the collisions of sub-atomic particles. They became a metaphor for how the fabric of our human interactions in life were intertwined like the relationships of the interactions of sub-atomic particles - as they take on an immense interwoven journey through sometimes highly dissonant, sometimes outrageous, and sometimes alarmingly harmonious paths.

From a purely formal analysis Scott explained in a recent interview, "I think there are a number of extremely challenging formal elements, colors, textures, shapes, etc inside each of these works, and you can have a rewarding discussion exploring them. But for me what's most interesting are that the pieces are absolutely and fundamentally developed with a vocabulary of their own design, using parts of the brain commonly referred to as the spiritual centers, or the unconscious constructs, while being consciously aware of their outcome. The collisions and interactions of a color as it passes through it's journey across the piece can be shocking, subtle, tranquil, nerve wracking, challenging, and as you see all of the colors and their journeys connect and interact with each other across the piece, following their individual and their collective interconnected stories, a more meditative state starts to occur inside the viewer and a more sublime experience of quantum reality starts to reveal itself."

Scott's work is represented by Ryan James Fine Arts Gallery http://www.ryanjamesfinearts.com/ in Seattle, Washington and has shown and sold his works in galleries since the mid 1980s. Over the past 29 years he has also worked as an executive in the electronic game industry, most recently working in the Microsoft Research Labs.

More Back Story:

The Particle Track series began in 1979 while Scott spent evenings at a job in the RISD parking garage watching empty car stalls, and reading CERN, FermiLab and SLAC journals, and books like the Dancing Wu Li Masters, the Tao of Physics, Be Here Now, etc. and sketching the rudimentary drawings that were later to become the Particle Track Series.

Under the direction of such mentors as artists Mel Katz and Laura Ross-Paul, Scott began drawing the figure extensively while creating more developed elements of the Particle Track Original Series, and began showing and selling his works in Portland Oregon galleries.

Scott's professional career took him into the advertising and marketing worlds, becoming a Creative Director, a Promotions Manager, all while asking himself... "how did I get here?" The next logical step was to join in the fledgling computer/video game industry at it's nascent stages in the 1980s and ride that amazing carpet for 28 years - all while raising a family and gaining valuable business acumen as an executive and entrepreneur, and working with prominent and start up community action groups helping people in need in the Seattle area.

Through some cosmic coincidences and persevering through many many surgeries on an old college soccer injury, Scott has taken the Particle Track Series to a whole new and exciting level... and for no good reason other than "they have to be drawn" there is a body of work for you to purchase and enjoy today.