an article from the Ventura County Star about my show! If you are in Ventura this Saturday please stop by the Vita Art Center, part of the City-Wide Ventura Art Walk Weekend.

Driven to paint
Vita ART CENTER IN VENTURA
The sun, the sand, the ocean Southern California is, truly, a paradise. Alas, to get to the beach and the ocean, you most likely have to hit the highway — and that means traffic. Lots of it.
Scott Yeskel, a New Jersey native now living on the West Coast, is at once dismayed and inspired by the effects of urban sprawl. While he hates the enervating effects of traffic gridlock, it can’t help but inform his art. When he goes to paint, Yeskel told American Style magazine last year, he strives to take the “unattractive elements of urban sprawl and make them personal, poetic, beautiful.” Many of his paintings, like the one pictured here, feature cars. “They speak of our journeys, moods, where we are going, where we’ve been,” he told the magazine. “They also speak of how separated we can be at times.”
Yeskel’s work, both abstract and representational landscapes, is on display today through Oct. 29 in Studio 30 at the Vita Art Center, 432 Ventura Ave., Ventura. A reception will be held tonight from 6 to 9. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and weekends by appointment. Call 644-9214 or visit http://www.vitaartcenter.com for information. Yeskel’s Web site is http://scottyeskel.com.