LIZZIE SCOTT. NEW YORK, USA, 1970. lives and works IN NEW YORK, usa.


artists website: WWW.lizziescott.net.


Scott is represented by gut gallery, dallas, tx, usa.


Lizzie Scott’s paintings could be seen as soft sculptures. Her padded, quilt-like forms are constructed from layers of polyester batting, crinoline, fur, and traditional canvas. They suggest the shape of buttons, grates, construction barriers or manhole covers and reflect the everyday objects of the artist’s urban environment. To these substrates, Scott applies thin washes of paint until abutting fields of color achieve a level of balance with areas of exposed canvas. Panels of loose fabric are cut and stitched back together like punk rock garments or exposed upholstery. Colorful threads create drawn lines and performative borders between painted sections. The work is at once elegant and gritty, constructed and painted with purpose but allowing for detours and improvisation. The resulting tactile compositions can be experienced as one might navigate a city block – full of noise, obstacles, color and life.


Lizzie Scott received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts, her BA from Brown University, and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program. She has had solo exhibitions at John Tevis Gallery (Paris), Galerie Gris (Hudson), The Jersey City Museum, and LMAK Projects (NYC). Her performances, sculptures and paintings have appeared in group shows including at Zürcher Studio (NYC) Rachel Uffner Gallery (NYC), Kate MacGarry Gallery (London), Ohio University Art Gallery (Athens), Bennington College (VT), The Brooklyn Museum, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. From 2009-2016 Scott ran The Total Styrene Experience, a roving performance laboratory. Her work has been featured and reviewed in numerous publications including Artforum and The New York Times. Scott has been a MacDowell Colony fellow and a New York Foundation for the Arts sponsored artist. Her work is in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, and the RISD Museum.




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