Installation view, Black and White Paintings 2012-2013. © Tiple V Gallery
FANTASTICAL LANDSCAPES
PFA-Washington, D.C. Gallery
1932 9th Street NW, #C102, Washington, D.C 20001
Date:
September 7 – October 26, 2024
Pazo Fine Art is pleased to announce Michael Scott: Fantastical Landscapes on view in Washington D.C., at 1932 9th Street NW (Enter from 9 ½ Street) from September 7 through October 26. This marks Scott’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, showcasing historic works ranging from 1994 – 1996. An opening reception will take place Saturday, September 7 from 6 to 8 pm. A full color catalogue with an essay by writer and curator Bob Nickas will be published to accompany this exhibition.
In a radical departure from his calculated, systematic series of line paintings, Scott introduced a newfound representational component to his aesthetic approach in the mid ‘90s, configuring exuberant landscapes rendered in gouache, spray paint, and ink.
Off-ramp
Bjorn & Gundorph Gallery
Mejlgade 35A, 8000 AKlosterport 4x, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
Date:
August 13 - September 18, 2021
Bjorn & Gundorph Gallery is proud to present Off-Ramp, a solo exhibition of new and earlier paintings by American artist Michael Scott. Initially known for his signature black and white “line” paintings widely exhibited in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, this exhibition marks the artist’s return to the European scene after his last show in Paris in 2019.
After dabbling in the fashionable abstract expressionist style of the late 1980s that celebrated individualism, Scott formulated a reactionary position designed to question the basic concept of originality. Inspired by the black paintings by Ad Reinhardt and the date paintings of On Kawara, Scott created a series of target paintings consisting of black and white concentric circles that appear identical with only slight variations, intending to remove the aspect of qualitative judgment from the viewing experience.
Circle Paintings
Xippas-Paris Gallery
108 rue Vieille-du-Temple, 75003 Paris, France
Date:
December 15, 2018 - February 16, 2019
With Circle Paintings, Michael Scott’s first personal exhibition with Xippas Paris, the artist revisits and gives a new direction to his first works made in the 1980s – paintings of near-identical concentric circles.
At the time, his works, with their absence of style and their obvious refusal of mastery and originality, focused on the ideas in painting. They represented a statement with regard to neo-expressionism which was triumphing then in New York, and continued along the path opened up by other painters such as Oliver Mosset or Peter Halley. Hung together, they created a strong optical effect, which is also at the heart of the exhibition presented here with Xippas Paris.
MICHAEL SCOTT
Xippas-Geneva Gallery
Rue des Sablons 6 & Rue des Bains 61, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
Date:
January 19 - March 10, 2018
The Galerie Xippas is delighted to present an exhibition by the American artist Michael Scott. Renowned painter of the New York contemporary art scene, he presents, for his second solo exhibition at our Geneva galleries, a selection of works created between the 1980s and 2016s.
Associated in the early 90s, with his friends Steven Parrino, Matthew McCaslin, Cady Noland, or Olivier Mosset, to what has been called “new abstraction” and close to movements such as “neo-geo”, to which are attached Peter Halley, John M. Armleder, Christian Floquet, Christian Robert-Tissot, among others, Michael Scott realizes paintings that can be considered as many visual experiments pushed to the extreme. His artworks bring the optical impact to such a level that it makes them almost impossible to look at : the artist describes his paintings as “Op art on acid”. A disruptive experience that underlines his extreme point of view on art.
RECENT PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
Sandra Gering is pleased to present Michael Scott: Recent Painting and Sculpture. This is Scott’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery.
For this exhibition, Scott pairs new free standing sculpture with paintings, both of which continue to explore the conceptual aspect of optics the artist has worked with since the mid 1980s.
Scott’s interest in the sculptural nature of his work is brought to the foreground in this exhibition. Highly sensitive to materiality, Scott has always seen his paintings for their three-dimensional qualities. The enamel works in particular have, for the most part, been painted on aluminum grounds and projected off the wall on metal brackets, heightening their objectness. e
MICHAEL SCOTT
Michael Scott is an American artist born in 1958.
He lives and works in New York. Close to the artistic movement "Op Art" without being completely related to it, Michael Scott creates systems, working methods that constitute a framework, a boundary to his creation. Thus, in the 1980s, he began work on opticality with the series of "circle paintings". Each one of these paintings is made up of concentric black and white circles whose size varies very slightly. The works aligned all together then present an intense optical effect. He then deepens and explores his work on optics with a series of paintings of black and white lines (like the one seen at the Dynamo exhibition at the Grand Palais in 2013) made in such a way that they are almost impossible to look at.
MICHAEL SCOTT and JOHN CHAMBERLAIN: a conversation
SANDRA GERING is pleased to present MICHAEL SCOTT & JOHN CHAMBERLAIN: a conversation, an exhibition of painting and sculpture, and Scott’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.
For this exhibition, the gallery has chosen works from Scott’s recent monochrome and striped enamel on aluminum paintings and paired them with Chamberlain’s Asarabaca, a sculpture from 1973. Reflecting on the exhibition, one begins to see similarities in regard to each artist’s perspective on color, material & form. Where Scott often chooses to vigorously embrace or completely eliminate color to highlight the linear structure of his paintings, Chamberlain can similarly be seen controlling the application or removal of color to heighten depth and accentuate form in Asarabaca.
Michael Scott
Xippas-Geneva Gallery
Rue des Sablons 6 & Rue des Bains 61, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
Date:
April 03 - May 31, 2014
A painter who has left his mark on the contemporary New York scene, Michael Scott presents in Geneva a group of works in enamel on aluminum panel. Twelve black and white paintings are exhibited in the first room, and seven others, also in enamel, in a play of multicolored lines, are presented in the second room.
Since 1989, Michael Scott has been creating paintings as visual experiments taken to the extreme. He juxtaposes narrow vertical lines of different colors on aluminum sheets, generally of square format and variable dimensions. These works take the optical effect to the point where it is almost impossible to look at them. It is a destabilizing experience that underscores the artist's equally extreme approach to art. He pushes subjectivity away through systematism and the search for a mechanical aspect in his works.
Michael Scott–To Present
Black and White Paintings 2012-2013
Tiple V Gallery
24 rue Louise Weiss, 75013 Paris
Date:
2013
Michael Scott, Black and Blue
Galerie Vedovi, Brussels
11 boulevard de Waterloo, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Date:
May 23 - June 23, 2012
Michael Scott: Black and White Line Paintings 1989 - 2011
“Over the last twenty five years my work has taken several forms of expression, from concentric circle or target paintings, to black and white line paintings, to photographs, to cartoon-inspired drawings, to paintings that can be described as psychedelic ‘candyland’ themed landscapes, to small thickly encaustic abstractions. However, over this period of time, the most pre-dominant works are the “highly optical” black and white line paintings done since 1989. These are probably the works for which I am best known.
In 1994 I stopped making abstract line paintings but I returned to this type of work in 2002 and 2003 and then most recently in 2010 and 2011. It is this grouping of highly optical black and white line paintings around which I have built this exhibition.
Michael Scott: Recent paintings
Tiple V Gallery
24 rue Louise Weiss, 75013 Paris
Date:
October 29 - December 18, 2010
The paintings by Michael Scott shown at Galerie Triple V are part of a series of 16 paintings, some of which were recently (June 2009) shown in New York at Galerie Gering-Lopez. Considering the exhibition of this new series to be his most ambitious since the early 90s, Michael Scott decided to title it “and then he tried to swallow the world”.
In contrast to his earlier line paintings, produced between 1989 and 1994, these show an almost opposite intention: while his black & white paintings were an effort to distance subjectivity, through their systematism and quest for a mechanical aspect, the new paintings integrate the accidents and imperfections that occur during their production. They are more contemplative in nature, whereas the black & white paintings pushed optical effects to the point where the paintings became almost impossible to look at.
And Then He Tried To Swallow the World
GERING & LóPEZ GALLERY is pleased to present and then he tried to swallow the world, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Michael Scott. Initially known for his signature black and white "line" paintings widely exhibited in the late 1980's and early 1990's, this exhibition marks Scott's return to the New York art scene after a ten-year hiatus.
After dabbling in the fashionable abstract expressionist style of the late 1980's that celebrated individualism, Scott formulated a reactionary position designed to question the basic concept of originality. Inspired by the black paintings of Ad Reinhardt and the date paintings of On Kawara, Scott created a series of "target" paintings consisting of black and white concentric circles that appear identical with only slight variations,…
MICHAEL SCOTT
Tiple V Gallery
Dijon, France
Date:
2008
MICHAEL SCOTT
Sandra Gering Gallery
476 Broome Street, New York, NY10013
Date:
April 29 - May 29, 1999
michael scott: new works
michael scott
Art & Public Gallery
Rue des Bains 35, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
Date:
1995
Michael Scott: New Paintings
Tony Shafrazi Gallery
119 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10012
Date:
March 19 - April 23, 1994
michael scott
Jason Rubell Gallery
700 Lincoln Road, Miami, Florida 33139
Date:
February 3 - March 10, 1993
michael scott: New Works
Akira Ikeda Gallery
31-1 Higashi Isoyama 2-chome Suzuka, Mie 510-0257 Japan
Date:
October 4 - October 30, 1993
Michael Scott: New Paintings
Tony Shafrazi Gallery
163 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012
Date:
September 22 - October 20, 1990
Michael Scott: Photographs
Brent Sikkema Gallery
155 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012
Date:
September 26 - October 13, 1990
Michael Scott: New Paintings
Tony Shafrazi Gallery
163 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012
Date:
September 16 - October 7, 1989
MICHAEL SCOTT
Mission West Gallery
14th Street and Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
Date:
1987