Nina Bliese Gallery
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David Malcolm Scott
Recording Minnesota's history through scrolls of water color, and pen & ink.
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| "Gopher State" |
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May 5 - June 18, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday May 8th, 5pm to 8pm
Artist's Talk: Sunday May 18th, 3pm to 5pm
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| "Lakes and Bread" |
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Often in contemporary art what you find is
a loudness, a screeching and screaming; an effort to jolt
the viewer through the internal violence or mystery of the work.
Another commonality of today?s art scene is the reliance on language
and the written word to convey ideas. As a conveyer of ideas, David Malcolm
Scott seeks to convey a different role, what Joseph Campbell called, "aesthetic arrest?,
that intake of breath or gasp when you see something so wonderful it stops you in your tracks.
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Cities are one of mankind?s greatest and longest lasting inventions and are a complex web of people,
ecology, built objects, and circulation systems. They contain many layers and complexities,
juxtapositions of old and new, soft and hard; clashes of cultures and intentions, and
the constant tug between the built, the natural environment, and the to-be-built.
Artistically, I?m drawn to this complexity and through my education and life
experience have studied it and lived with it. Through the use of scrolls and
other works I offer a view of the urban world and try to convey
some of the wonder and vitality I feel when I look
around me with an ?artistic? eye.
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