Self taught painter Scott Guion is from New Orleans. He is uniquely qualified to wield this mirror of the bizarrely familiar. To Live in New Orleans is a sensory experience, and when I look at Scott’s paintings, I am steeped in a sensory overload. I’m not sure if I knew that he was self taught until today when I read it on his website. That’s something I should have known, considering how long I have been acquainted with him. I met him because we both did work for the House of Blues, with our friend, Scott Smith, (cofounder of Farrington Smith Gallery!)who was the art director. I guess Scott Guion may qualify as a folk artist? But it’s a refined kind of raw. We are invited into the montage, we can see everything at once in a Scott Guion painting, and see ourselves, in our city, with our kind of people.

-Adam Farrington