Tom Scot

Thomas Scott (1928–2013) was an American Abstract painter, teacher and arts administrator. His career, spanning six decades, included architecture, sculpture, furniture design, photography and video and demonstrated an underlying conviction that painting needed to embrace change to remain vital. He was represented by Hilda Carmel Gallery (1963–1965), Studio Gallery the Hunter Museum and UMBC as well as private collections throughout the USA and Europe. He retired from Maryland Institute College of Art as Dean of the Graduate Division in 1976. (1952–1955), taught at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (1954–1955), was a visiting lecturer in art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and was a regular visitor to Black Mountain College.

He was a supporter of the women's movement and designed a poster for the National Organisation for Women's Chicago Chapter in 1967. In 1965 he married fellow activist and feminist Ann London and they were together until her death in 1975.

As Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (1955–1961) In 1961 he moved with his then friend, William Christenberry to New York City. He worked as Art Department Head at The Adelphi Academy Brooklyn, completed a Masters Degree in Education at New York University (1961–1963)

Following Linden Johnson's Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 he was appointed to the Center for Urban Education (1966–1969) Following retirement he worked as an art therapist at City Hospital and exhibited work with Artists Equity and Artscape in Baltimore and with Studio Gallery and Touchstone Gallery in Washington DC

In 1987 four of his painted photographs and screens, including Clarence Schmidt's Garden (1985), Fells Point Stove (1972) and Sun Photo/Blue Rain (1985), were selected by Andy Grundberg, Photography Critic at The New York Times, and Sharon Keim, Executive Director, Washington Center for Photography, for the exhibition and lecture by Andy Grundberg, 'The Image and Beyond' held at Duke Ellington School for the Arts, Washington DC.

Solo exhibitions 1955, 1957, 1959 University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa 1963 Tom Scott, Exhibition of Paintings, Hilda Carmel Gallery 84 East Tenth Street, New York City (8-28 March) 1963 Exhibition of Pictures by Tom Scott, Henri Gallery, 113 South Royal Street, Alexandria, Virginia (8-31 September) 1976 Tom Scott Recent Painted Photographs, Gallery 641, 641 Indiana Ave Washington DC (26 March - 17 April) 1982 The National Women's Bank 23rd exhibit by Washington Area Artists 1627 K Street N. W. Washington DC (12 February - 8 April) 1985 Paintings on Photographs/Folding Screens, Studio Gallery 420 7th Street NW Washington DC (2-26 October) 1992 Objects of Divination, Touchstone Gallery 2009 R Street NW Washington DC (23 June - 12 July) 1994 Before the Wall and Beyond, Touchstone Gallery 2009 R Street NW Washington DC (26 April - 22 May) 1996 Tom Scott Sculptures +, Maryland Arts Place Fells Point 1820 Aliceanna Street (7 -29 December) 1996 Over the Edge:Out of the Picture, Touchstone Gallery 406 7th Street NW Washington DC (16 February - 10 March) 1997 Tom Scott Sculptor, American Institute of Architects 11 West Chase Street Baltimore 1998 Opening Bound, Touchstone Gallery 406 7th Street NW Washington DC (9 September - 4 October) 1999 Bright Shadows: Recent work by Tom Scot, Halcyon Gallery, Margarets Cafe 909 Fell Street Fells Point (18-27 February) 2002 Tom Scott Painting and Sculpture, 57 Fine Art 57 N Street NW Washington DC (1 June - 24 August) 2002 Tom Scott Blind Reflection, L'hotel Galerie de L'ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Caen (2 October - 8 November) 2009 Solstice, Project 1928, 1628 Bolton Street, Baltimore (13 December - 24 January 2010) 2014 Tom Scott Retrospective, UMBC Center for Art Design and Visual Culture (9 October- 13 December)- 2015 Tom Scott Transcriptions in Paint, Creative Alliance at The Patterson Baltimore (4-12 December)

Group exhibitions 1954 Momentum, Chicago Illinois 1962 Hilda Carmel Gallery 84, 84 East Tenth Street, New York City 1966 Lightings, Hilda Carmel Gallery 84, 84 East Tenth Street, New York City (22 April - 12 May) 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 Maryland Institute College of Art Faculty Exhibition 1980, 1981,1982, 1983,1984, 1985 Artists Equity, Baltimore 1987 The Image and Beyond, Duke Ellington Gallery, 35th & R Streets, NW Washington DC (19 February - 23 March) Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (4 May - 20 July), Piedmont Arts Association (16 October - 27 November), Portsmouth Community Arts Center (8 December - 17 February 1991), Della Plaine Visual Arts Center Frederick (26 February - 30 March 1991), The Ellipse Arlington Virginia (2 May - 28 June 1991) 1997 Tom Scott, Dave Yocum, Matt Lucas, Studio 302, 302 South Central Avenue Baltimore (8-29 November) 2000 Halcyon Gallery, Margarets Cafe 909 Fell Street Fells Point (January) 2006 Linear Abstractions: Laura Yang and Tom Scott, Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, 801 Chase Street, Annapolis