Scott Scheidly
by Jonathan Yubi; introduction by Vanessa Barros Andrade
All of the “political” artists are hard at work making fools of the can- could have so much support. Scheidly isn’t interested in watching the
didates (whom they disapprove of) running in this upcoming election. debates; he says there’s only a certain amount of pain he could bear. I
There are memes, paintings, and satirical videos reflecting the opin- want to understand the ways Scheidly expresses his disapproval through
ions of American society. I kind of love that. It’s fun and also
these paintings. He lost a lot of people from his mailing list
pretty glam. I’m not very interested in painting as a
when he sent out an email update about his clown
contemporary art form. I’m not interested in
painting of Trump being available in print. I
the displaying of a skill set. I am interestasked Scheidly if there was anything he
ed in the aspects of politically driven
says to Trump’s audience with his
art that convey emotional experiart. He said, “Please reconsider.”
ence. This is very reflective of
expressionism. Stylistically,
Scheidly exclusively shows
you wouldn’t think of poThe Pinks at Spoke Art
litical art as expressionGallery in San Francisism, but the feelings
co.
that are involved
with the choices
He’s
currently
made seem very
working on a sesimilar. Expresries of oil paintsionism was part
ings for SCOPE
of the modernist
during
Art
movement—it
Basel Miami
forced art to
Beach
this
represent emoDecember.
tion through
I
reenactexperience and
ed
what
it
feeling rather
would
be
like
than
simply
to walk into
convey objects
a
solo show
or landscapes
featuring
The
from reality. A
Pinks.
Here’s
a
lot of the masters
short
screenplay
who came out of
documenting a
the expressionist
friend’s
and my
movement painted
critique
and
reabstractly. Perfecting
sponse
to
the
work.
the forms of the subject
wasn’t the focus or con(You can find Vanessa
cern of the artist.
and Arturo’s screenplay on
artbornemagazine.com, along
Orlando-based
artist
Scott
with
the full article.)
Scheidly created a series of paintings
called The Pinks. Scheidly is interested
in using color theory to distort the image or
reputation of these historically evil political figures, like Adolf Hitler, Kim Jong II, and Donald Trump.
(Yes, I do consider Trump to be historically evil.) Scheidly expresses Broaching the Subject
his disdain for these figures using humor, by dressing them in gendered
colors, like pink and purple, and inserting symbols like Hello Kitty and After Vanessa’s screenplay, I felt the need to reach out to Scheidly, and
Care Bears to mock them. Humor is one of the most important ele- figure out the reasoning behind her assessment of his work. It occurred
ments of The Pinks. He combines these different elements in an attempt to me, this interpretation might be more common than I could’ve ever
to show how colors change perspective.
assumed. With introductions and formalities out of the way, Scott and
The painting of Trump was created out of Scheidly’s disdain for the
Republican candidate. He doesn’t understand how anyone like Trump
Orlando’s Art Scene, v. 1.5
above: The Pope, acrylic on Masonite, framed
left: Ruysch’s Dream, acrylic on Masonite
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