Solo Exhibition of Paintings by Scott Hutchison

Fred Schnider Gallery

March 6th – April 24th, 2021

Call To Schedule and Appointment: 301.852.8042
Available Hours: Thurs – Sun, 12-7pm
Location: 888 N. Quincy St #102, Arlington VA 22203

Scott Hutchison’s paintings and drawings are comprised of overlapping figures stitched together in one
composition. His artwork is multifaceted, abstracted, and appears to be in motion – not just physically,
but psychologically as well – evoking the idea that our identity is also in flux. Though we are singular
beings, our psyche is not. We are molded in part by time and our life experiences.

The people in Scott’s work personify strength and frailty of consciousness and the depths to which we
experience the human condition. The figures are displaced, out of sync like ghosts or layered memories,
both timeless and self-aware.

Scott’s work can be seen as a journal entry, the manifestation of a deep concern for place and purpose
in this world. He reassigns faces and body parts through a mixture of trial and error, coupled with
random chance and the need to create something from nothing.  During this process, Scott is seeking
answers to a larger question: Who or what defines us as an individual? Are we here by accident, or is
there a greater purpose, or are we just a product of our culture and our experiences? His art is meant to
tug at the viewer and suggest that there may be more to this material world.  Each piece is intentionally
shrouded in mystery, letting the viewer interpret its multitude of meanings.

October 8, – December 12, 2020

See the show online on Artsy

Painting the figure now will show quality paintings that investigate the many ways we see the human figure today; contemporary approaches to portraiture, narrative, and any and all visualizations focusing on the human form in life, action, play, work and repose. We are exhibiting artists who understand the finest traditions of figurative art. We believe the human form is an endlessly interesting subject with inexhaustible potential.

“There was a time when finding well-painted figurative works was difficult. There just wasn’t that much of it around. But that has changed. It seems there is an abundance of well-painted works at this time, as one sees them too often on Instagram and other social media platforms. In curating this show I looked for works that were not only technically excellent, but also captured my attention in a different way, and made me think beyond the represented figure. This might be political/social commentary, or it might be visually poetic, or intrigue with narrative or humor, or relate to painting’s grand history, or deliver a strong sense of what it is to be human. I wanted paintings that delivered a view of existence in today’s world. We are living in very difficult times and I expect artists to be saying more about our experience during this period than just reproducing a pretty face or a nice body.”   – F Scott Hess, guest curator

List of Artists

Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art

The Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art is a place where people from Northern Wisconsin can experience the work and ideas of artists – both living and deceased – to understand the historical, social and cultural context of the art  of our time. WMOCA integrates exhibitions, performances, collections, and educational programs to excite, challenge, and enlighten our visitors.

Our vision will inspire generations of north central Wisconsin residents and visitors from throughout the nation to understand and appreciate the art of our time. We are located in the historic Wausau Club at 309 McClellan Street in the very heart of Wausau’s vibrant downtown, featuring works by nationally & internationally established artists. Our goal is to unleash our region’s creative energy and to engage a broad and diverse audience in conversation about how art connects us, allowing us to grow and thrive as a community.

Contact

WMOCA
309 McClellan St
Wausau, WI 54403
715.298.4470

Free and open to the public
Tue-Sat: Noon – 5

Arlington Virginia Virtual Studio Tour

I am excited and honored to be a part of this year’s Arlington Visual Art Studio Tour [AVAST]. We are going virtual this year. Some of us will be on YouTube and others Live on Facebook! Peek into 40 creative spaces from the comfort of your home! The AVAST Tour is online this year, featuring a talented collection of Arlington artists. Get to know them, their art, and their creative process through a combination of YouTube videos and Facebook Live events. The schedule is below.

My Studio

Facebook Live Exhibition dates

Saturday, September 26

Facebook Live

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM    Jennifer Brewer Stone: Encouraging awe
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM  Scott Hutchison: Psychological movement
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM   Melanie Kehoss:  Origins of culture
12:15 PM – 12:30 PM  Rhys Conlon: Engaging rhythm
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM   Mary Jennings: Promoting growth
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM  E. Lynn Coates: Figures in nature
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM   Sarah Bentley:  Maintaining tradition

Sunday, September 27

Facebook Live

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM   Marsha Lederman: Experiments in clay
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM   Robbie Namy:  New ideas from Old Masters
12:30 PM – 12:45 PM   Scott Kaye:  Form following function
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM   Emily Fussner: Poetry in the periphery
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM  Claudia Olivos: Magical realism
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM   “Rain Check” in case of tech difficulties

YouTube Event Schedule

Wednesday, September 23

9:00 am YouTube Videos Go Live

David Carlson:  Abstraction influenced by meditations on consciousness
Deb Crerie:  Photography, technology and additive processes
Lucinda Esh:  Expanded home studio and abstract painting process
David Goldstein:  Artwork debut and a rare look into a private work area
Sue Grace:  Demonstration of large-scale figurative abstraction
Heike Gramckow:  Modern impressionist landscape paintings
Arlie Hammons:  Becoming an artist after traumatic brain injury
Anne Hancock: Paintings of personal narratives
Sarah Hardesty:  Recent work, inspiration, and process
Brie Hayden: Hyper-realistic drawings in a tiny workspace
David Jenkins:  Hand-cut original-design papercuttings
Bryan Jernigan:  Acrylic abstracts and Impressionistic pastel landscapes
Julie Jernigan:  Jewelry in sterling silver, pearls and semi-precious stones
Zofie King:  Mixed media assemblage, reminiscent of cabinets of curiosity
Stephanie Lane:  The space between the metaphysical and the physical
Barry Lindley:  Expressive realist landscapes from the mid-Atlantic
Viondette Lopez:  Connection through portraits and landscapes
Sharon Malley:  Narrative paintings of childhood memories
Ingrid Matuszewski:  “Loving life through painting”
Felecia Brice McFail:  Learn about calligraphy and the FOHTA Gallery
Nan Morrison:  Gestural, drip and action painting defined by bold color
Morgan Johnson Norwood:  Nature inspiration behind abstract paintings
Sandi Parker:  A home studio with a glam, fun vibe, “filled with things I love”
Jean Sausele-Knodt:  Mix-media wall mounted assemblages
Henrik Sundqvist:  Large scale layered prints and their basis in drawing
Sherry Trachtman:  Influences, materials, and origins of 3D assemblages
Andrea Uravitch:  Animal and plant sculptures and how they are constructed

Arlington Visual Art Studio Tours

The Arlington Visual Art Studio Tour (AVAST) is a self-guided free tour of artists in their studios held throughout Arlington County, Virginia in early autumn. This is a non-juried showcase for local artists to feature their work, processes and studio spaces, and for the community to experience the richness and diversity of visual arts to be found in Arlington County.

In 2020, our tour will go entirely online, with videos and Facebook Live events featuring artists in their studios.  This format not only helps our artists and visitors feel safe and secure, it also provides an opportunity to “visit” far more studios than would be feasible in-person.  Moreover, this virtual tour will showcase Arlington studios to art lovers around the country and the world!

The 2020 Tour will begin on Wednesday, September 23, 9 am, when 28 video studio visits premiere on You Tube.  The interactive portion of the tour takes place on Saturday, Sept 26, 10 am – 4 pm and and Sunday, Sept 27 11 am – 4 pm, when 12 more artists go live on Facebook.  Videos will also be available to watch after the event, but we encourage you to watch during the live sessions so you can comment and ask the artists questions!

A summer online juried exhibition

I am excited and honored to be a part of a summer online juried exhibition titled SHIFT at the McLean Project for the Arts. SHIFT was juried by Henry L. Thaggert and Sarah Tanguy, and focuses on works that address the concept of a shift, change, or exchange. The exhibition’s title is meant to be interpreted broadly. It’s a prompt that can be viewed literally, or subtly implied in the work chosen for the show.

Retracing Wonder

I’m excited that my painting titled Retracing Wonder has been included in Shift and will be represented along side such a wonderful list of artists below.

About Retracing Wonder: At some point during the process of painting Retracing Wonder, I made the decision to leave a good amount of the portrait incomplete. If you look closely, there are passageways that have been left flat and unrefined. There is a time within each painting that an artist asks him/herself if it’s finished. This question has to be asked outside the artist’s own preconceptions or ego. It’s not about the artist anymore. Retracing Wonder, with all its pencil marks, rough edges, and unrefined marks remains a perfectly incomplete portrait.

Exhibition dates

Due to the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, The McLean Project for the Arts will not have a physical exhibition or an opening reception. It will instead by fully virtual. Please join me during the MPA’s first ever online exhibition reception and Juror talk by Juried by Henry L. Thaggert and Sarah Tanguy.

Show Duration
July 15 – through August 27

Virtual Opening Reception
July 15, 7-8pm – RSVP Here

Virtual Artist/Juror Talk
July 23, 7-8:30pm RSVP Here

Jurors

Henry L. Thaggert is a collector and art patron in Washington, DC, where he is a corporate attorney for a Fortune 500 company. Mr. Thaggert has served on boards of several arts institutions including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the George Mason University’s School of the Arts, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, the Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland, and the Millennium Arts Salon–an educational group focused on African-American art and culture. Mr. Thaggert currently co-chairs the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery Collector’s Circle.

Sarah Tanguy is an independent curator and arts writer based in Washington, DC. Over the years, Ms. Tanguy has been the curator of 12 collections and more than 250 exhibitions in the United States and abroad. In addition to numerous exhibition-related essays, she has written for The Washington Times, Sculpture, New Art Examiner, Glass, American Craft, Metalsmith, Urbanite, Hand Print Workshop International, Turning Points, Mid-Atlantic Country, Baltimore, and Readers Digest. From 2004 through 2019, Sarah was a curator at ART in Embassies, US Department of State.

McLean Project for the Arts

The McLean Project for the Arts exhibits the work of emerging and established artists from the mid-Atlantic region by promoting public awareness and understanding of the concepts of contemporary art. It offers instruction and education in the visual arts as well.

MPA@MCC | 1234 Ingleside Avenue, McLean, VA 22101
Gallery & Office Hours:

Tues – Sat: 10:00 am — 4:00 pm
Closed Sunday & Monday

Slipping Away is available for sale online exclusively through Poets and Artists and 33 Contemporary.  Poets and artists is a community of artists, poets, collectors, and art aficionados. They have a rich twenty year history of publishing literary and art magazines and books. I am honored to be a part of this group.

They are a talented group of figurative artists and I am proud to have Slipping Away accepted to their Artsy listing. It is available there and only there if you are interested.

Poets and Artists: Here
33 Contemporary: Here
You man Purchase Online: Here

Anniversary Show

May 15th – Aug 15th, 2020

Where: www.pxpcontemporary.com
Contact: info@pxpcontemporary.com
PxP represents a select number of my paintings

I have three paintings available to purchase exclusively through Everyday original‘s Artsy gallery. I am so happy to have these three works listed among such a cool group of creative and like-minded artists! If you like my work, check out their website and get to know more contemporary figurative artists creating today.

Perhaps something will grab you, haunt you, or spark your own creative interests!

Three paintings available on Artsy.

The three piece available are: Tenuous Grip, Her Echo, Her Shadow, and Impermanence.

You can go to the show through a direct link to their page: Artsy, or at Every Day Original

Here I am at Superfine DC in 2019. I attended both Superfine DC in 2018 and 2019 and found the art fair experience to be so rewarding. It was a chance to directly engage with the local art scene in the Washington DC area and to get a better grasp on what is required to represent yourself. Both years were so uplifting and energizing.

Did I Sell?

Sales help of course, and I made a profit both years.  But the cost of showing at a fair is an investment and as such, a monetary risk. I knew this beforehand and weighed the risks of not not selling anything vs the opportunity it would give me to network and share my artwork and make local connections.

Little did I know that Superfine DC would also re-fuel the creative spirit in me as well.

As far as the business side of attending an art fair, the Superfine experience left me with a better understanding of where I need to focus my efforts and I learned a lot about the fair culture. I’m no expert, but I also gained additional knowledge regarding self representation.

Do Your Research!

If you ever think about displaying your work at a fair, I highly recommend you do some research first. Some practical advice is to have a booth with various price points, and go into the process with a mindset that it’s both an education, a form of outreach and advertising. It’s an investment, and you have to be okay and willing to loose that initial booth or wall cost. Remember, an art career is a long game and one fair will not decide your future in it. 

Below is a video of me installing my artwork on the 6′ x 10′ wall at this years DC’s 2019 Superfine!

A list of what I needed to install everything.

• 1 x Roll of Blue tape – no need for a pencil to mark the walls.
• 1x Cordless Drill – DEWALT 20V MAX Cordless Drill
• 24 pack of 1 1/2 inch drywall screws
• 1 x 36″ Level
• 1 x 3 step ladder
• 2 x 18inch shelves – Floating Wall Shelf 18″
• 1 x print display rack – Jullian Print Rack
• Artwork, Business Cards, Ltd  edition – Prints, Ltd edition – Art Catalog.

Thank You!

A warm thank you to those able to make it out to the art fair @superfineartfair this year. I had a great time visiting with some old friends and making new ones. Also, for those of you that purchased something from my booth. A humble thanks as well for those able to support me in that way. It keeps my paint and brush drawer full and let’s me know that what I do is worthy of your time, your thoughts and your patronage. I get so much from all of you though! Thank you for stopping by and saying hi.

RJD Gallery

Curated by: Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt & Didi Menendez 
Opening Reception: 11/5, 6-8 PM
Show Dates: 11/5 – 12/5
Location:  2385 Main St, Bridgehampton, NY 11932  
Gallery Website: http://rjdgallery.com/

The two figures occupy a confined space; forced to be impossibly intertwined. Is one figure is emerging from the other, or does the piece depict the passage of time? I am incorporating both the translucent and transparent effects seen in the majority of my work, but also giving the figures a stronger air of believability. The title is a play on the design of the work. 1) The Curve of her back 2) The Presence is the figure fading into the background. 3) The Space between is the hand emerging from the gap within the two bodies.

Her Eyes Opened 

Painting The Figure Now

Zhou B Art Center

Show Dates: 10/8—11/20
Location: 1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Gallery Website: http://www.zhoubartcenter.com/

Online Catalog of additional artists in the show here

About The work:

Scott Hutchison’s Her Eyes Opened is a painting based on a graphite drawing found here. The title of this dual portrait speaks to the question of the self and it is meant to represent a moment of self discovery. The figure pictured here has just opened her eyes and we are seeing her transform, or dissolve. She understands who she is becoming and peers back at us as if to ask if we are ready. The double portrait represents her complex personality and her confident gaze suggests that she has already said goodbye.