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Artist\xa0Scooter LaForge is a delight. To be honest, I somehow felt like connecting with him on this show was healing for me-now who\u2019s the shrink!?\nScooter\u2019s work is amazing and so instinctual- he cannot not do it. Even though he\u2019s worked with big names like he is as humble as can be. So much to learn from his perspective\u2014growing up as a gay man in a tiny town in Arizona. I have to say I was envious hearing of all the free-range outdoor time he had, but alas the town, it\u2019s sounds really small and devoid of gays which means a pretty homogenous group of people (boring!)\nScooter is the best of what an artist is\u2014someone fueled by their work and satisfied because of it. He complimented me a lot, so I\u2019m going to give him an A as a guest rating.\nFollow and learn more about Scooter HERE: https://www.scooter-laforge.com/ Instagram @scooterlaforge @scooter_laforge_a_life_of_art/\nBIO: Scooter Laforge\xa0began his love affair with art at a very young age while growing up in the small town of Las Cruces, New Mexico.\xa0His burning desire to render things beautifully began with his singer/songwriter mother, and his landscape painting father; both equally inspired his creativity and lust for art.\nLaforge\u2019s work can be characterized as Pop Art partnered with abstract expressionism and Dutch classicism. His paintings and drawings are portraitures, landscapes, and objective subject matter, utilizing his special painting techniques and incorporating his homoerotic, in your face, non-apologetic lifestyle.\xa0\xa0Like Golden Books on acid, his work employs a 50\u2019s illustrated storybook technique, modernized by 70\u2019s color palettes and are influenced heavily by gay pornography, cute fluffy animals, and sometimes iconic cartoons (i.e. SpongeBob Square Pants, The Cookie Monster, and Popeye and Brutis) which are reoccurring characters and themes within his work.\xa0\nLaForge earned his BFA from the\xa0University of Arizona\xa0in 1993,[5]\xa0and began his career as a painter in San Francisco.[6]\xa0He moved to\xa0New York City\xa0in 2001,[3]\xa0where he attended the\xa0Cooper Union\xa0School of Art\xa0under a fellowship.[8]\xa0His art is in the collections of the\xa0Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art[9]\xa0and\xa0Beth Rudin DeWoody.[10]\nLaForge has a line of hand-painted, unique clothing items that are sold through fashion stylist Patricia Field.[11]\xa0He has twice collaborated with Belgian fashion designer\xa0Walter Van Beirendonck.[12][13]\xa0His clothing has been worn by\xa0Susanne Bartsch,[14]\xa0Sandra Bernhard,[15]\xa0Beyonc\xe9,[8]\xa0Miley Cyrus,[6]\xa0Boy George,[3]\xa0Debbie Harry,[8]\xa0Nicki Minaj,[3]\xa0Madonna,[8]\xa0Iggy Pop,[3]\xa0Rihanna,[6]\xa0and\xa0Lil Wayne.[3]