Tomorrow evening during the first friday gallery hop, be sure to visit Swanson Reed at 638 E Market to see Scott Scarboro's exhibit.  He'll also be playing some wild music incorporating circuit bent noise makers, electro fried canjoes and other bits of archaic technologies.  Scott's art often has a lot to do with aliens and past visions of the future and modified toy robots.

I found this interesting bio for Scott on his website www.junkabilly.com:

Scott Scarboro is a Multimedia Artist and Entertainer from Louisville, Ky who creates kinetic junk art and electrified home-made Instruments with a Fat Albert and Rube Goldberg meets Lester Flatts and Earl Scruggs anything goes kitchen sink esthetics.

He attributes his main source of inspiration to childhood memories of his Grandfather, who would often solve everyday house hold problems in highly creative ways.  The sight of his grandpaw attaching a Falls City beer can to a mouth harp with wire to remedy the lack of the teeth needed to play the instrument, changed Scott's life forever.  Other sources of inspiration are Dr. Seuss, Kiss, Batman reruns and Rock-A-Billy musician Hasil Adkins.

He's been a kindergarten teacher,  a lamp repairman and a prop builder for clowns at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College in Venice, Florida.

Exhibit runs to March 28

Swanson Reed Contemporary

638 east market Louisville ky 40202