SWEET SOFT HAUNTING

falling through tunnels of sensitive sweet memories, cute youth and soft touches.. 1979 boy white skin body and blondish hair.. i see each spirit in turn swirling around my body and yours.. purple then green.. they tell me of your wonders and your hells..

The liminal space where life and death mix and a hallucinatory other world opens up has always fascinated me. This in-between space and the gateways that lead to and from it have always permeated my work in many ways. The shade of what happens after death, the separation and the loss of things held dear, the entities that live between this world and that and the possibility of our metamorphosing into a more flexible nature. Much like a flower or child that dies quickly I have grown to understand how fragile life can be and how that can make us cling to the possible idea that there maybe an eternal life. But eternity is only interesting if it includes change. And why not, as an artist, learn to create my own reality which equates with my own changing belief structure and opens up many possibilities both to myself and to the viewer.

I am a California boy.. growing up on the border of Orange County and Los Angeles. I now live and create in Montreal, Canada. Since i was a kid i have been interested in haunted places, spirits, magick, alternate realities, and childhood wonders. Each of these marks my artwork and life in various ways.

“The human phenomenon is but the sum of densely coiled layers of illusion, each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity that there are persons of any kind when all there can be is mindless mirrors laughing and screaming about in an endless dream."
Thomas Ligotti

"Do you know the voltage required to create a current between the arteries of the heart and the sun?"
Harry Crosby

Scott’s current charmingly nightmarish wonderland, “Charnel Grounds and Sickly Playthings”, displays a disturbingly playful plumage. It suggests a salacious marriage of the dead and the living in a hypnotic vortex of blood, apparitions and bunnies! The spirit like entities and demoness which inhabit the charnel grounds torment the eye and the mind with a peculiar haunting resonance! A whimsical kaos of elements cleverly woven throughout the subject matter of the entire series ties it all together into one intriguingly devious brutal body ready to devour.

Although this cheerfully unsettling and curious homicidal union of elements may perhaps not agree with a predisposed lighthearted appeal, it is regardless, easy for the eye to get lost in the rich hypnotic and devastatingly colorful imagery. This makes for a nice balance and almost psychedelic touch. There is also an almost liberating child-like quality of unrestricted content.

From these works the viewer may be invited to sink into a dimension manifestly bizarre and surreal in some senses, internal landscapes and violently fun situations tactfully executed and occupied with sprightly crafted creatures.

I see the work of CGASP as being heavily laden with subtle symbolisms. Like talismanic stations which revolve on the particular position of the artists imagination and vision. Violence, knives, Bloody sores, gaping wounds, sacrifice, decapitation, delicately stirred into a typhoon with a dash of sarcasm and humor.

Jesse Peper, 5/22/08, Denver, Colorado

Solo, Duo, Trio (selected) :

2011 Hallucinatory Twilight, Cinéma du Parc, Mezzanine Gallery, Montreal, Québec.
2009 Wierdo Playground, Glamort Gallery, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
2005 L'astuce, (duo show), Montreal, Québec, Canada.
2004 Norwalk Regional Library, Norwalk, California, U.S.A.
2004 "Witch World," Roberts Art Gallery, Santa Monica, California, U.S.A.
2004 "Dark Pathway," Perihelion Arts Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A.
2004 "Red Crush," Pece-Arieas Gallery, Santa Ana, California, U.S.A.
2003 "Between Spaces,"Centre Culturel de Verdun, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Group (selected) :

2011 Exposition ANNIVERSAIRE, Usine 106U, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2011 Exposition RÉCRÉATION, Usine 106U, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2011 “BFF” (Best Friends Forever), restropect, Headquarters Gallery, Montreal, Quebec
2010 30th Year Anniversary Show, OCCCA, Santa Ana, California.
2010 Press Start!, Headquarters Gallery, Montreal, Quebec.
2010 Équilibre, Usine 106U, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2009 Wild Things, Headquarters Gallery, Montreal, Quebec.
2009 Procession, Usine 106U, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2009 We are 3!,Headquarters Gallery, Montreal, Quebec.
2009 Subterfuge, Usine 106U, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2009 Oboro Gallery 25th anniversary show, (invited artist), Montreal, Quebec.
2009 SALON D'ARTS DU CONSEIL, Restaurant Chez le Portugais, Montreal, Qc.
2008 Conspiration, Usine 106U, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2008 Synergie, Usine 106U, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2008 Vox Gallery, Sacramento, California.
2008 Provocation, Art Undressed Show, Conseil des Arts du Québec, Montreal, Qc.
2008 Sex-Machine Exhibit, Cirque de Boudoir, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2008 BRINGING URBAN IN, Side Show Studios, Sacramento, California.
2008 APOTHEOSE, Usine 106U, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2008 IGNITION, Usine 106U, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2008 Hollywood Apocalypse, Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA.
2008 Eclosion, Usine 106U, Montreal, Quebec, Canada..
2007 Opticraid, Usine 106U , Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2007 CALAVERAS Y DIABLITOS, Cactus Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA.
2007 Re-Run show, Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA.
2007 Small Wonders, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA.
2006 Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA.
2006 Galerie Alternance, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
2005 Small Wonders, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA.
2005 Night of the Living, 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, California.
2004 Halloween Show, Pece-Arieas Gallery, Santa Ana, California, U.S.A.
2004 Nightmare on 18th Street Event, 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, California.
2003 S. Ferry, John J. Jesse, I. Samaras, Perihelion Arts Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
2002 “DPI Digitally Propelled Ideas,” W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery,
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, U.S.A.
2002 “Ecstasy: Mind, Body, Spirit,” OCCCA, Santa Ana, Californie, U.S.A.

Involvement :

2011 Artwork and writings by Scott Ferry in volume 3 of CHAOSPHERE MAGAZINE.
2011 Cover Art for PD-024-ANGST-ALBUM CDR, LIMITED EDITION OF 75 COPIES ONLY, First 30 copies on colored CDR + Japan OBI. Label: Phatasma Disques
2011 Inhibition "Where All Beginnings Arise" Homage to Scott Ferry, sound/art project, cdr limited release of 100. Label : 412Recordings
2009 Pindemonium 05. Montreal, Quebec.
2009 3 mural paintings (outside wall of Usine 106U Gallery), 111 Roy E., Montreal, Quebec
2008 Pindemonium 04. Montreal, Quebec.
2007 CD cover for Visions from the Garden - a C.O.T.A. project compilation, Published in USA.
2005 CD cover for Ostara - Immaculate Destruction, (music genre dark wave, pop), Published in Germany. Label: Trisol.
2004 "The Lost Women of Juarez", Chapman University, Guggenheim Gallery, Orange,
California, U.S.A.
2004 Member of OCCCA,
Director of the new members commity, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California.
2004 CD cover for Ostara – Ultima Thule,
Published in Germany. Label: Eis & Licht.
2003 Cover and inserts for Sonne Hagal/Nerthus,
Published in Germany. Label: Eis & Licht.

Written works:

Demoness (ever-after sweetness), hardbound, 2nd edition, republished with new material, 2011. Publisher Les Éditions FrI. http://www.editionsfri.com/

Demoness (ever-after sweetness), 1st edition, hand stitched soft bound, self published April 2000.

Awards :

2004 Merit award
California State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, CALEXPO, Sacramento, California

2003 Excellence Award, State Fair Crystal Award
California State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, CALEXPO, Sacramento, California.

Collections:

Private collections in Canada, USA, and in Europe.