About
SG Art, known in the music world as Scott Grooves, is a Detroit-based artist and musician who seamlessly combines music and elements of industrialism to create captivating immersive experience and artworks. Renowned for his contributions to jazz, electronic music and balancing man with machine; the organic with the synthetic.
Since the early 2000s, Grooves has established himself as a fiercely independent artist, primarily releasing music on his own labels: Natural Midi, Modified Suede Recordings, and From The Studio of Scott Grooves. His most recent drop, ‘E2E4 Reframed’, a live reimagined cover of the immortal classic from 1984.
Grooves was included in an inclusive seventy artist exhibition titled Motion, curated by Roula David at Spotlite, Detroit. In May 2023, he made his debut as an artist in residence at FILTER Detroit, the artist residency and contemporary art platform established in 2010 to promote collaboration among residents, neighbors, and the city of Detroit. The exhibition titled Free Jazz, curated by Kerstin Niemann, showcased Grooves' unique artistic style, which involves incorporating mass-produced materials from consumer culture and giving them their own distinct language.
For his second solo exhibition After the Dance, curated by Elysia Borowy at the underground artist space Red Door Digital, Grooves crafted five installations that delve into experimental expressionism in the realms of both visual arts and electronic music. Grooves' installations serve as a profound personal response to the pervasive capitalist-driven culture while also drawing inspiration from afrofuturism. Through these thought-provoking explorations, the artist reflects on the impact of consumerism and creates a captivating visual dialogue that engages viewers with societal and futuristic themes.
Artist Statement
3AM Thought: I see with my ears when I write music and I see with my eyes when I make art.
3AM Thought: A civilization of beings who were reduced to inexpensive vessels of function. But slowly begin to reappear after the material has been tossed aside. This is the visual story of All-Dee People - a story of faces.
3AM Thought: For years music was my escape hatch during the pandemic, I built a new one, art.
3AM Thought: All-Dee People, even though they lost their original identity to the "everydayness" they never forgot where they came from. And their hope is to one day totally break free of their chemically based composition and be normal again…whatever that is.This restoration process begins the day the everydayness stops.
3AM Thought: Listening to music doesn’t directly influence my work, but it does affect my mood which helps the mobility of my work. Fragments in my head join other fragments and form new ideas.
Art and music helped me dream beyond the challenges and limitations of my immediate surroundings- just another 3am thought
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