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| I'll tell you how I started . I worked in an office oh very respectable and clerklike I was.Then one day I saw a painting by Bacon , a reproduction, it gave me the shock of my life, it skinned my eyes.I became a different man,like a conversion. I saw a new world. |
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| School of hard knocks and then The Cooper Union , I took a great risk but I found a great happiness and after all a half minute of revelation is worth a million years of no nothing |
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Group and solo exhibitions
Anton Kern Gallery July 2008
The Erica Kay Gallery July, 2005
Atlanta, GA
Atelier Princengracht June, 1996
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science May, 1994, Houghton Gallery
New York, NY
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The Redemption of Loss: New Paintings by Scott Rees
The new series of paintings by New York artist Scott Rees showing in Atlanta is an extended journey into how a personal landscape masterfully executed, but with exacting and profound sympathy, may reveal the aching beauty of what it means to be human. This series, is executed with a compellingly painterly style reminiscent of Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon, and Van Gogh, but with an urgent sense of the present. These are not homages to past masters, but a furthering of a great lineage dedicated to revealing ordinary people through an extraordinary eye.
. A family at a dining room table. An old man sick, near death. A Child, a triangle of sricken figures.
The work is deeply dualistic, balancing the vivid and the formal, exploiting the tension between figurative resemblance and the abstracting accidents of process.. All of these subjects are rendered in such a way that they contain whole lives, histories, stories, suffering, disappointments. These paintings are portals to the other side of expectation, filled with people who seem waiting for something that they know will not arrive. But these people are also portrayed with such a depth of sympathy and courage, that they take us far beyond what otherwise might be existential exhaustion. Rees's canvases are thick with paint, I mean, almost at times, troweled on. This approach is both disturbing and comforting at the same time. Through it, a literal reversal of uncovering by adding layer upon layer, he seems to be discovering the complexity of a human life, all the mess, all the incongruities, until finally the technique itself becomes a metaphor for the subject. For most this would be enough, but Rees's ambitions extend far beyond the paint and canvas. By faithfully capturing his subjects longings, he shows ourselves to us.
--David Rees |
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| Ah there's good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to paradise by way of Kensal greens |
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