Scott Marvel Cassidy's project at LAMOA deals with gentrification, both as a phenomenon in local areas of Los Angeles such as as the Eagle Rock/Highland Park area and as a development that includes and affects the art world on multiple levels. His observations are displayed in a structure of thin plywood housing three dioramas. Cassidy's paintings, drawings and sculptures represent reality in a dreamlike state. His work focuses on the intersecting themes of memory, the immediate physical environment and the quandaries of referring to paintings as purely representational.
