Gregory Scott: In Still Motion
Artist Gregory Scott’s In Still Motion exhibition blurs the lines between media by presenting a series of humorous and poignant video-based wall pieces.
Scott has always blurred the lines between painting and photography, incorporating paintings he made of himself, or his body, back into his photographs. The resulting images were both humorous and abnormal, challenging the viewer’s perception of photographic truth.
At the age of 49, Scott decided to go to graduate school to strengthen his knowledge of art history and study video editing. In 2008, upon graduation, Gregory Scott stunned the art world with his mixed-media video works that combined installation, photography, performance, video and painting.
In order for Scott to create his unique visuals, he constructs his studio in a way to serve the subject. In these sets, he records himself performing a variety of scenarios that are edited into 6-10 minute videos. The sets are then photographed, and the resulting wall piece is a mounted photograph with a cut out for a monitor on which a video plays, and a painted element appears on the photographic surface. In each video, Scott shows how he constructed the set that he photographed, breaking down the barrier between maker and viewer.
The artwork Warholian (pictured) aptly highlights this dialogue between maker and viewer. At first sight the space shows a photograph of a framed ‘painting’ hung within a gallery. The painting quickly reveals itself to be a video, showing the artist making his own Warhol’s, including a silkscreened Marilyn who gets up and walks out of the frame, and a Campbell’s soup can that tips over, pouring out blue paint.
In Still Motion opens at Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, USA on Friday 5 September and runs through to Saturday 1 November 2014.
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