Art professor exhibits 3-D landscape paintings in Scottsdale

Abstract landscape painter Scott Rispin announced that his newest artworks will be on exhibit at the Arizona Fine Art Expo in Scottsdale. He will also be on site daily to greet visitors and discuss his unique three-dimensional painting technique with art collectors and interior designers.

The expo, at 26540 N. Scottsdale Road, will be on view 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily through March 24.

Rispin applies his technique to create abstract landscape paintings that are informed by nature. His exhibit includes new, original paintings as well as a new line of limited and open-edition prints.

"I am in a perpetual state of awe and wonder at the landscape. As a visual artist and teacher, I am driven by design, color, form, and composition. I look for these elements in the natural world and then reinterpret my impressions of nature, presenting them in new, different, and unique ways," said Rispin.

Rispin received his MFA in painting from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 2008 and has been presented awards for his achievements in sculpture, painting and public art projects. The professor taught painting, drawing, visual studies, and art appreciation at Penn State Erie, Behrend College, for 11 years and taught art classes at the Erie Art Museum. Originally from California, he arrived in Arizona in 2020 and accepted a position as an art professor at Yavapai College in Prescott. Over the past year he entered semi-retirement to explore becoming a full-time artist. The exhibit at the Arizona Fine Art Expo marks his first exhibit of works as a dedicated, full-time artist.

Rispin began creating three-dimensional artwork during graduate school and has since mastered this skill to create paintings that, from a distance, read as an abstract landscape painting. Upon closer inspection, however, viewers witness the tangible dimensional quality of the paintings as he brings backgrounds to the foreground, for example, to emphasize specific areas of a landscape.

For this show, Rispin has created a new body of work of original abstract landscape oil paintings featuring his three-dimensional sculptural technique.

Rispin works from his studio in Queen Creek and over the past few years his artwork has been featured in exhibitions across the country including in California, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Seattle. In Arizona he has exhibited in Prescott and Scottsdale.

Visit scottrispin.com or arizonafineartexpo.com for more information.