Scott Wixon
Artist Statement
Scott Wixon’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, Woodstock Artist Association & Museum, Woodstock, NY and the Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL and in many galleries. His recent exhibition of Rabbit and Other Tails was exhibited at the Painting Center, NY. Scott has had artist residences at the Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy, Foundation Obras, Estremoz, Portugal twice and Cill Rialaig Project, Ballinskelligs, Ireland. Beside the latest one at L’Expressoir in Marnay Sur Seine, France. He has artworks in the Guggenheim Museum permanent collection, as well as in private and corporate collections. He received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA from Yale University. He has worked and lived in Tribeca since 1975. He grew up on Cape Cod and returns there often. He has a love of nature and the sea, but also enjoys the energy of the city. He has traveled extensively and sampled the art and culture of the world. All of these influences and passions have informed and affected his work.
Color has always been extremely important to me and is one of the defining elements of my work. Over the years I have developed a personal vocabulary of shapes and gestured markings. The recognizable imagery I use has enhanced the development of my abstract forms. The current work is almost exclusively from my imagination. When I start a new painting, I usually have only a preliminary idea. I start to paint and my structure develops as I go along reacting to what has come before. When I am painting, I feel confident that I can totally trust my intuition and make the right decisions.
