Adam Scott Interview
by Ryan Travis Christian, Fecal Face Dot Com, June 25 2008
Adam tell us a little bit about your work, for those who have neither seen nor heard of it.
For the past 7 years I have been pouring heavy amounts of liquid acrylic paint onto super-cranked / tight canvases. On the surface, the work uses representational pictorial languages. Below the surface, the DNA code is made up of process based non-objective painting languages. The content of the work is totally immersed in American vernacular visual culture and hyper reified modern / contemporary art visual culture. The ridiculous and the sublime play equally important roles in my work. There is also a generous helping of good ol' American fear & paranoia. ......
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That Kind of Fall
by Kathryn Rosenfeld, artnet, August 14 2004
Meanwhile, around the corner on Washington, Kavi Gupta Gallery has rolled out another apparent trend, a style I can only call "nostalgia for 1970s album cover art." In a solo exhibition titled "Wasn’t Tomorrow Wonderful," Adam Scott shows acrylic-on-canvas paintings of idyllic suburban houses, all rendered in searing, saturated
electric hues and deep black shadows. More recent paintings display a propensity towards mayhem, as latter-day Mickey Mice characters swing axes and aim assault weapons at Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood.