Susan Still Scott "Corporeality and Other Things of Grace and Beauty"
Heskin Contemporary
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Susan Still Scott mixes sophisticated visual play, with a range of carefully considered responses to issues of modernist painterly abstraction. For this show, “Corporeality and Other Things of Grace and Beauty”, Scott’s constructed paintings frame the idea of corporeality in her own particular context. The theme of this work, says Scott, “comes out of feelings of having a body ... this universal experience is the commonality between us. Understanding the way things meet, join and work such as shoulder to arm has a kind of logic that we all share.” The overriding narrative - albeit subtle and abstract - is emphasized by the work’s often comic state of dishevel and informality and it suggests that we are all compromised in some manner but the show must go on, so we’d better pull ourselves together and put our best foot forward.
Like most painters, Scott uses many of the traditional materials; paint, cloth, wood, staples, hooks, wire and so on, to imagine new ways of structuring an image, however, here, they are combined to foreground unique relationships between the elements themselves and subsequently their potential relation to broader arenas such as those of architecture, sculpture and installation.
[Image: Susan Still Scott "Saddle Sore" (2010) mixed media 17 x 11 x 10 in.]
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Schedule
from March 03, 2011 to April 09, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-03-03 from 18:00 to 21:00