Discipline: Visual Art

Scott Cassidy

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1998
More: www.scottmarvelcassidy.com
Scott Marvel Cassidy has worked as a nonfiction writer and filmmaker, and now works mainly with painting, drawing, and sculpture. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Cassidy received his certificate of completion from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He moved to Los Angeles in 1998 to work on the Henry Darger film In the Realm of the Unreal (2004) directed by Jessica Yu, whom he met at MacDowell. Cassidy went on to work for artists like Paul McCarthy and Jim Shaw. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions since 1994, including “Levitate The White House" at the Los Angeles Museum of Art (2016); “Angels and Skeletons Eat Ghosts” at Me.di.um Gallery St. Barthelemy (2008); and “New Work” Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia. His group exhibitions include “Bad Boys Bail Bonds Adopt A Highway” at Team Gallery, New York (2015), and “Good Intentions” at Subliminal Gallery, Los Angeles (2013), among many others. His work is in the collections of Thomas Jefferson Bank and Merck Pharmaceuticals.

Studios

Eastman

Scott Cassidy worked in the Eastman studio.

Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…

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