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Barry Scott
 
 
About the Artist

“I am a deeply religious non-believer.”
Letter to Hans Muehsam, March 30th 1954 from Albert Einstein.

My work renders a world that can be used as a platform to explore issues of anxiety, loss and faith. The characters that inhabit that world are sexually imbibed though possess little in the way of faculties to affect their environment; they are impotent and helpless. Impulses are repressed by a religion that is the cause of much friction in itself. There is no salvation.

There are tools and signifiers that we have come to rely upon to explore the world around us. The signifiers that I use directly refer to the conservative canon of painting in the hope of critiquing the puritan ideology that created it.

Polarities abound in my work. It is liberal in content but conservative in approach, being permeated with serious ideas but humorous in their presentation. Cathartic though repressed.

As I explore the dichotomies inherent of technique and media to give my ideas form, I have been investigating sculpture as a platform. My sculptural work is informed by the figures in my paintings that come to exist undeniably in cast material. These characters then propagate themselves using the creative process with myself as their channel.

My work is the interpretation and perversion of misaligned or contrasting ideals. This is my liberation.

 
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Benign

2007
Scraperboard
12.7 X 17.78 cm

Benign

Understanding Figs

2007
Scraperboard
12.7 X 17.78 cm

Understanding Figs

Firmament

2007
Scraperboard
12.7 X 17.78 cm

Firmament

Ascendant

2007
Scraperboard
12.7 X 17.78 cm

Ascendant

Feonis

2006
wax
variable

Antennae

2006
iron
variable

Empyrean

2006
graphite
43 X 35

Vault

2006
pen and ink
43 X 35

Vault
 
Education and biography
Education
2003 - 2006 MFA University of Maryland, College Park, USA

1998 - 2001 BA (hons.) Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Scotland

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2003 Barry Scott The Meffan Institute, Forfar, Scotland

Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 Micro-Monumental, juried by Kristen Hileman, Flashpoint, Washington DC.

Appropriately: 5 artists explore humor University of Maryland Union Gallery

2005 Unconventional Kitsch (ornament donation) Maryland Art Place (MAP), Baltimore

‘Show and or Tell’ Maryland University, Union Gallery

‘A New Day’ Juried by Vincent Virga Arts Harmony Hall, Fort Washington, Maryland

2004 ‘Transposed Borders’ Indiana University of Pennsylvania

‘Sadat’ artists for peace show University of Maryland West Gallery

Prizes and Awards
2006 David Driskell Award for Excellence
2005 ‘A New Day’ - Honorable Mention
2003 Dundee Visual Arts Award (Scottish Arts Council)
1999 The Barclaycard Drawing Award - Highly Commended
1998 The Mitchell Prize - Most Outstanding Student at Dundee University

Reviews and Publications
2006, April 22nd, Robin Teirney, The Examiner, "Size Matters - Mighty Macros at Flashpoint"
2006, Feb 10th Washington Post, Michael O’Sullivan, “Stealing the Show at UMD.”
2006 Washington Post, express
2005 “Stylus” literary arts journal/annual, University of Maryland
2004, Dec. 30th The Washington Post - Sara Gerhardt, “The State of the County’s Art”
2000, July 30th The Independent- Fiona Rattray
2000, April 9th The Scotsman- ‘Pick of The Week’
 
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Website:  www.barryallanscott.com
 
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