Through Trees, oil on canvas, 20 x 48 inches
Blue Window, oil on canvas, 70 x 70 inches
Train Yonder, oil on canvas, 72 x 72 inches
Green Hills Blue Trees, oil on canvas, 64 x 64 inches
Through Trees IV, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches
Lumbering Cloud 1999, oil on canvas, 70 x 70 inches
Purple Fence, oil on canvas, 17 x 14 inches
Yellow Truck II 1999, oil on canvas, 60 x 64 inches
Little Tree, 2006 oil on linen, 58 x 58 inches
Purple Tree 2006, oil on linen, 50 x 50 inches
House, Cloud, Tree 2005, oil on linen, 18 x 18 inches
Red Barn with Cloud 2006, oil on linen, 34 x 28 inches
Blue House 2006, oil on linen, 58 x 58 inches
Blue Gray Fragment 2004, oil on linen, 30 x 12 inches
Untitled II 2004, oil on canvas, 12 x 28 inches
Maazee 2001, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches
White Fragment 2005, oil on linen, 30 x 12 inches
Red Barn Blue Trees 2006, oil on linen, 38 x 65 inches
Blue Window 2000, oil on canvas, 18 x 18 inches
Landscape with Train 2006, oil on canvas, 44 x 44 inches
SCOTT REDDEN
Scott Redden combines motifs of rolling pastures, voluminous clouds, verdant trees and homestead architecture, creating nostalgic paintings evocative of an earlier, simpler rural reality. Yet beneath the bucolic surface of the landscape settings exists an urban undertow (he has created the most of his paintings in New York City) that flavors the imagery. Distinguished by lone or cropped placement, the isolation and confinement of these forms contrast poignantly with the implied atmosphere of warmth and connectedness in his chosen subject. He effectively juxtaposes complimentary characteristics: past with present, cheer with melancholy, interconnectedness with disconnection, clarity with mystery. Redden’s paintings are conceived from minimal yet mindful sketches culled from photographic fragments, memories, and imagination, so that the inspiration of his pictorial imagery straddles truth and invention. Once his composition is established, the drawing is transferred to canvas by hand in sections at a time over a period of days or weeks. This tactical process ensures that each individual element receives the same attentive care as the overall composition, and enhances the forms with perfect puzzle-like correspondence with each other.Stacy Smith of the Zimmerli Museum states:
Redden's work is as much an exploration of the nature of painting as of natural environment and notions of place. Distinctive for unabashed and often inventive color, multiple points of interest, flat planes, and modified traditional imagery, Redden’s work engenders natural associations with folk painting. However, while it shares visual qualities with naïve art, it is in fact quite sophisticated. Exploring the way objects relate to each other abstractly, Redden expands on its representation in unique and imaginative ways. Mixing formal geometry with gestural brushstrokes, variations of scale and configuration with motif repetition, and simplified modeling with detail, he activates his personal iconography instilling the pictorial imagery with an atmosphere of stasis.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2006 Dillon Gallery, Houses, Clouds and Trees, New York City
- 2005 Laurel Tracey Gallery, Summer Fun, Red Bank, NJ
- 2004 Rentz Gallery, Paintings, Richmond, VA
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2002 Dillon Gallery, Paintings, Oyster Bay
Laurel Tracey Gallery, Big Sky Country, Red Bank, NJ - 2000 OK Harris Gallery, Paintings on Paper, New York City
- 1999 Dillon Gallery, Paintings, New York City
- 1998 OK Harris Gallery, Paintings on Paper, New York City
PUBLIC ART
- Metropolitan Transit Authority Art Design Commission for the J Line Subway Station in Brooklyn NY, Project consists of seven "faceted glass" artworks measuring approximately 42" x 72" to 46"x76" each. Fabrication by the Willet Hauser Glass Studio, Philadelphia PA