Robert Scott | Recent Works

Paul Kuhn Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Edmonton artist Robert Scott (Dip ’69, Art).

Throughout his career, Robert Scott has worked in thick, all-over gestural field paintings. Often working on a large scale, Scott manipulates the paint with the wrist and full arm gestures. These thick geologies may be sprayed or have additives such as copper slag or crumbled-up dried paint. These handsome paintings reveal a world rich in luxurious physicality.

Robert Scott studied fine art at the Alberta College of Art, Calgary (1969) and the University of Alberta (1976). He is one of a group of prairie abstract artists whose work is characterized by experimentation with the formal qualities of painting. Influenced by New York abstract expressionism and abstract colour-field painting, Robert Scott has developed a style of drawing with his fingers through the top layer of paint to expose the underpainted colours. The incising can be highly controlled and patterned, or random. The resulting rhythm creates visual tension, a quality comparable to Jackson Pollock's automatic style. Robert Scott also explores visual textures by painting with thick acrylic gel and by using a spraying technique. In 1993, an exhibition of his recent work organized by the Edmonton Art Gallery toured nationally.

Source: Galleries West