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Virginia and DC contemporary figurative painter explores the human body. Realistically painting and drawing segments of the portrait and nude in surreal, layered, translucent and abstract compositions.
The outer edge of the picture plane is as important as what is inside. His arms repeat the rectangular border of the composition and he is covering his eyes from a light or an unknown force beyond its four walls. As with most of my work in this series, the figure is created by combining multiple disjointed bodies. In this case, all the figures are of him. However. the three main moments I drew from represent different competing moments in time. The work is meant to evoke the idea that we are a product of our own experiences and our actions. We are not a definable or singular moment in time. My use of saturated color, bright light and translucently painted forms hightens that fleeting effect of passing time and memory. The viewer's is encouraged to bring meaning to the work and interpret what is happening based on his/her own life experience.
Recent Solo Exhibitions
2016 Synchronicity: Paintings by Scott Hutchison, Hillyer Arts Space, Washington DC
2014 In Sequence, Blackrock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD
2012 In Motion, Animated Self Portraits by Scott Hutchison, Red House Art Center, Syracuse New York.
2012 Faces, Forms & Illusions, Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain Lake New York
Recent Group Exhibitions
2016 Connections: Artists Selecting Artists, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Scott Hutchison & Leslie Nolan, Face to Face, Strathmore Hall, Bethesda, MD
2015 Perspective: Contemporary Painting and Drawing, Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC
2015 Drawing, The Art of Seeing, The Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Me, Myself and I, Eastern New Mexico University, NM
2013 Emanation, Linus Art Gallery, Pasadena CA
Scott Hutchison
Artist
I was twelve when I first saw Francis Bacon's Study after Velasquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X at the Des Moines Art center. After thirty years I still see his influence on my work. My figurative work like Bacon's are often solitary and displayed in a series. Our compositions are both haunting and distorted; influenced by the progression of time and the motion of the figure. The visual representation of movement and time's effect on the human form is vital to my work. In my paintings and drawings I distort time by overlapping various moments together in one composition.
My paintings and drawings are created and conceived by combining the use of photography, animation techniques, projections, and digital manipulation to create multifaceted figures that appear to move and animate. One painting may consist of four or five different time frames. Like overlapping echoes, a figure may merge into another or become a haunting monstrous abstraction. My paintings and drawings are extensions of my animations where the viewer is presented with multiple time frames at once. In this way, my paintings and drawings illustrate the idea that the ego is in constant flux. Life is a series of ever changing events and time in its infinite step changes us.
Scotthutchison.com and www.dreamtank.com are funded in part by the generous support of the Arts Council of Fairfax County
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Monday — Friday
10:00 AM — 9:30 PM
Saturday
Noon — 7:00 PM
Sunday
Closed