Bill Scott “Imagining Spring”

Hollis Taggart Galleries

poster for Bill Scott “Imagining Spring”
[Image: Bill Scott "Butterfly" (2015) Oil on canvas, 48 x 45 in.]

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Hollis Taggart Galleries presents an exhibition of Bill Scott’s recent paintings, Bill Scott: Imagining Spring. In addition to large-scale paintings, the show will also include four examples of the artist’s prints. Scott, born in 1956, lives and works in his native Philadelphia.

Imagining Spring is Scott’s sixth exhibition at Hollis Taggart and his first in three years. These new paintings bear ample traces of the singular approach to medium and color that has marked his productions over the past two decades, but at the same time they signal a new individuality in his art. Comprised of 24 paintings, there is a wide variety, from low and wide landscape orientated works to a new tondo format. All bear Scott’s characteristically coloristic approach, with activated surfaces formed of interweaving related tones in broad washes, scumbles, and glazes. The artist paints using brushes, knives, and in frottage techniques that expand the textural range of the laid pigments, resulting in remarkable surfaces comprised of shimmering planes of radiant color. Despite the considerable amount of visible gesture, the canvases are without impasto. The expressive energy that Scott achieves in the absence of relief is a remarkable testament to years spent honing his technique.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D., Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College, author of John Everett Millais (2012), co-curator of River Crossings at Olana and Cedar Grove in Hudson and Catskill, New York (2015), Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde at Tate Britain, the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the Pushkin (2012-14), and John Everett Millais at Tate Britain and the Van Gogh Museum (2007-2008). He has also published on Marcel Dzama, Stephen Hannock, and Lionel Smit.

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Schedule

from March 10, 2016 to April 16, 2016

Opening Reception on 2016-03-10 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Bill Scott

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