37-year-old Missouri-born, Oakland-based Scott Greenwalt creates paintings that seek to display a part of human life that is often overlooked by portrait artists -- internal growth and decay and essentially, the insides of the human body.
Scott Greenwalt's work benefits from his clearly defined attention to detail. Some of his images are so thorough that it is easy to forget that they're paintings of the biological process that goes on in the human body. His paintings can be easily misconstrued as deformed human faces, surrealist landscapes better suited for a phantasmagorical painting and extraterrestrial monsters.
Scott Greenwalt's inventive style has garnered him fans throughout the West Coast. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions in both San Francisco and Oakland. His latest work 'Spectacular Beasts' is on exhibit at the Incline Gallery in San Francisco until June 4th, 2011.
Internal Organ Portraits
Scott Greenwalt Paints Portraits in Reverse
Trend Themes
1. Reverse Portraits - Creating art that displays a part of human life that is often overlooked by portrait artists - internal growth and decay - opens up opportunities for innovative ways to explore the human condition.
2. Inventive Bio Art - Scott Greenwalt's unique style has garnered him fans throughout the West Coast and there are opportunities to create bio art that portrays the human body in new and creative ways.
3. Detailed Biological Art - The detailed attention to the biological process of the human body seen in Scott Greenwalt's paintings presents the opportunity to explore more scientific and medical visualizations through art.
Industry Implications
1. Art - Greenwalt's success in displaying the internal workings of the human body through art could inspire other artists and art institutions to explore similar themes and mediums.
2. Biomedical and Scientific Visualization - Greenwalt's paintings present an opportunity to create more detailed and accurate images of internal human anatomy and could be beneficial for biomedical and scientific visualization projects.
3. Medical Education - The detailed and accurate portrayal of internal anatomy in Scott Greenwalt's paintings could be used as a tool for medical education, creating opportunities to improve the way medical professionals learn and understand the human body.