Black and White Gelatin Silver Photography by Scott Edwards I’m still just a kid from Neenah, Wisconsin. Grew up there, made best friends there, breathed its industrial perfume. Our home on McKinley Street was located 1 block from the Soo Line railroad switchyards and 2 blocks from Neenah Foundry Plant #1. On sunny days our streets and yards were tinted orange from sunlight filtered through the acrid smoke billowing from foundry stacks. Sooty grit lined the gutters, coated the windowpanes and dimmed streetlights. Our hands were blackened when we climbed over boxcars, the shortcut to St. Margaret Mary's gymnasium. In winter, the city crews plowed a giant snow hill in the Legion Club parking lot next to the tracks, into which we dug caverns for hiding out and smoking cigarettes. Our tennis shoes were stained with creosote from walking the rail beds. Walking past the foundry subjected me to images of workers on break, with bright white eyes and grimy hands holding cigarettes and virginal white sandwiches. All through the night, every night - the big diesel locomotives cavorted, mashing freight cars. It still sounds like a lullaby to me. Industry is in my veins. I hate it. I love it. I make friends with it in my images with the contrast and textures I use on subject matter of all kinds. This is who I am. This is why I see things this way. Represented By: Gallery 3 Manitowoc, Wisconsin Main Street Art Works Hilbert, Wisconsin ArtMail Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin Saatchi Gallery Online London, UK ArtLA Los Angeles, California Publication: Film Photography Forecast Toronto, Canada – Mar, 2011 Episode 7 – Scott Edwards Kameleony Fotografii Poznań, Poland – Sept, 2010 Scott Edwards Fotografie Europe Large Format Photographers Association – Jul, 2010 Scott Edwards - In the Wilderness with Large Format View Camera Magazine Corrales, NM – Nov/Dec, 2009 Scott Edwards on the American West PhotoGoals St. Petersburg, Russia – Oct, 2009 Scott Edwards Puts a Personal Signature on Everything He Shoots A Long Walk to the Grand Canyon 4element – Oct, 2008 Autobiography of Scott Edwards' 2000 mile solo trek Focus Fine Art Photography Magazine Brooklyn, NY – Oct, 2005 Focus Gallery: Scott Edwards Museum Exhibitions: Miller Art Museum (invitational) "Abstractions" Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin – 2011 The Pump House Regional Arts Center (In Shades of Gray) La Crosse, Wisconsin – 2010 Texas A&M Forsyth Center Galleries (featured artist) "The American West: Then and Now" With western masters: Frederic Remington, C.M. Russell, Jos. Sharpe Bryan, Texas – 2010 Hubbard Museum of the American West (Smithsonian) "Fall American Photography Exhibition" Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico – 2009 Biuro Promocji Kultury (invitational) "Project Smile" Gdansk, Poland – 2009 New Visions (solo exhibition) "A Long Walk to the Grand Canyon" Marshfield, Wisconsin – 2007 Charles Allis Art Museum (Forward) Milwaukee, Wisconsin – 2007 Haggerty Museum of Art (Biennial) Milwaukee, Wisconsin – 2007 Neville Public Museum (61^st Art Annual) Green Bay, Wisconsin – 2005 Oshkosh Public Museum (41^st Arts Festival) Oshkosh, Wisconsin – 2002 Galleries Exhibited: Main Street Art Works Hilbert, Wisconsin – current Saatchi Gallery Online London, UK – current ArtMail Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI – current Gallery 3 (solo) Manitowoc, Wisconsin – 2011 The Flying Pig Algoma, Wisconsin – 2010 Gallery 218 Milwaukee, WI – 2008~2009 Imagine Arts (solo) Jacksonville, IL – 2008 Featured Photographer PIXIPORT.COM – Dec, 2007 ~ Jan, 2008 Eyes of the Artist (solo) Hilbert, WI – 2007 Hephaestus F&F Door County, WI – 2007 The Wild Apple Menasha, WI – 2007 Gallery Ten Door County, WI – 2006 Wild Apple Gallery Appleton, WI – 2006 Inside-Out Gallery Milwaukee, WI – 2006 Mayhem Gallery Milwaukee, WI – 2006 Art Affair Neenah, WI – 2005~2006 Fairfield Center for Contemporary Art Door County, WI – 2005 Chaos Art Experience Oshkosh, WI – 2005 Open Window Studio (solo) Oshkosh, WI – 2004 Chaos Art Experience Oshkosh, WI – 2004 La Pomme Rouge Gallery Appleton, WI – 2003~2004 Juror: Milwaukee Art Museum (Scholastic Art Awards) – 2008 Collections and recognition information available upon request

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