ADAM SCOTT - Represented by: Kavi Gupta

 

Born 1970 New York, NY

Lives and works in Chicago, IL

Education: MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; BFA, California State University, Long Beach, California

 

 

SOLO Exhibitions Selected:

 

2004: Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2004: Galerie Schuster and Scheuermann, Berlin, Germany

2002: 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois

2002: Electric Avenue, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

 

 

GROUP Exhibitions Selected:

 

2005: In Search of a Continuous Present, Prague Biennale 2, curated by Lynne Warren

2005: Built Aganst Site, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, Kansas



Adam Scott: Brownies and Lemonade, 2004. Acrylic on canvas. 65.5" x 66"

Adam Scott creates paintings that describe his view of the American landscape. The paint is excessive, reckless, indulgent and seductive as it defines suburban A-frame homes, rural churches, and IHOP restaurants in over-saturated, unnatural colors. In several paintings faceless characters and disembodied objects from old cartoons begin to subtly invade the landscape. Sledgehammers hang in the sky ready to strike, pilgrims with telescopes surveil, and guns poke around trees. Their presence, though familiar and seemingly innocuous, evoke a time of paranoia and instability.