Featured Work
The Silence exhibition is tight. It is a family of colours and lines that riff and echo, beat and dissipate. But it is also tight. The tension is palpable in the room. A myriad of line and colour, dizzy heights and depths, pitfalls, ethereal balances, and subliminal forms draw the viewer into a colourful void of conglomerate meanings, fusing and ripping apart.
Unlike purely expressionist artists, he (Scott) commits to boundaries and carefully chooses what he reveals. He pulls back the NOISE of life, strapping it to a discernable grid. This keeps order and gives harmony. The bright colours collide in solid streams of directional purpose, withholding vulnerability, withdrawing weakness. Our visceral response is to want to rip them away. To see the emotional spectacle. To turn the flashlight on memory and pierce through the intransigence of systemic order. To take down cheerful skies, undo the sumptuous warmth of glazed strata, stand barefoot in the wind-swept roads of paint, and dig below the blinding snow of whites, to reveal the rawest season. We want to see it. To be in the room with silence. To actually see the NOISE of the in between.
Aidan M.D. Ware — McDonaldStewart Art Gallery