Scott Gordley graduated with an MFA from Tufts University. He is currently Chairman of the Fine Arts department at Montclair State University. He began his career in New York illustrating for clients including Time, Esquire, Reader’s Digest, Newsday, Spy, Morrow Publishing, Viking Penguin, Saatchi & Saatchi International, the London Times, and Ogilvy & Mather. He has received awards from the Society of Illustrators, the Silvermine Foundation and Print Magazine to name but a few. His work appears in many public and private collections and has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the United States and Austria. In 1999 a retrospective of his work was held in Vienna. A tenor saxophonist, Gordley also tours with his jazz trio: the Scott Gordley Trio.