Sam Scott: New and Timeless Paintings
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Overview
Sam ScottMind Mirror II, 2022Oil on canvas72" x 48"Sam Scott: New and Timeless Paintings
12 March - 16 April, 2022
Sam Scott: New and Timeless Paintings is a curated exhibition that highlights Scott’s mastery as a painter and the emotive and lyrical range of his work. Pie Projects is honored to present this work by one of Santa Fe’s great living painters, a world renown artist who has made Santa Fe his home for over 50 years.
Scott’s art transcends labels. At heart, he is a nature painter and colorist, but his style is highly personal and poetic, and can be best described as lyrical abstraction. His teachers Grace Hartigan, Clifford Still, Philip Guston, Salvatore Scarpitta, and David Hare deeply influence his work, while great European masters such as Velasquez inspire his every brush stroke. He is and has always been a painter in pursuit of beauty.
His new work is incredibly powerful. Each painting has a presence difficult to describe and is an invitation to peel back the layers, a journey into the very essence of abstraction. The work is lyrical, deliberately geometric at times, with dynamic defined lines and realms of color. There is structure in the brush strokes that are deliberately physical and passionate and at times rough-hewn. Then there is stillness within the compositions that is calm with mysterious volumes that are radiant and hold trapped light, almost defining an ineffable presence where opposites embrace within the essentially paradoxical nature of art.
Of his new body of work, Scott says:
“I wanted to create a luminous doorway in a rich field of energized, sumptuous, almost operatic color. A great painting must tremble. If you sit with it, it starts to acquire its own life. I want my paintings to become beautiful slowly, and then stay beautiful.”
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