Victoria Scott
"MY LIFE IS THE CONSTANT WORK OF THE EXPERIENCE OF PAINTING."
Exhibits
Andes General A Galleries, Andes NY; Earlville Opera House Arts Center, Norwich NY; Cooperstown Art Association Galleries; The Smithy, Cooperstown NY; Blue Mountain Gallery; Historic Treadwell Train Museum; Stagecoach Run Art Festival, Treadwell, NY; more recent group exhibitions in New York 2010-present, recent SOLO EXHIBIT AT SAPPHIRE BUILDING (Underground Art ABOVE GROUND, Exhibition by Crate Theme of Solo Exhibit of 11 medium scale paintings sent by Crate & exhibited "Just Another Fish From The Ocean." 2013 Exhibition at The National Arts Club , NYC. 2013 The Cooperstown Art Association in Cooperstown NY. ; "The Goat Hollow," West Mt. Airy; North West Philadelphia, Pa. Of 15 small oils.
Bio
Born in Philadelphia, educated/ BFA Graduate of Moore College Of Art & Design cum laude 1992 & MFA Graduate Of The Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts magna cum laude 1994/worked in PA. & NY at various companies for many decades.
"Victoria Scott’s woods are a domestic idyll: trees, tilting ground and a studio clinging like a birdhouse to a sleep slope, another layer the soft curves of the western Catskills. Scattered about are more or less permanent easels; brightly painted perches. She works ceaselessly outdoors and indoors by a single window in the coldest weather. Her studio is lit by a string of white Christmas bulbs. Her work ranges beyond the idyll into symbolism, though the woodland paintings – in the hundreds – suggest a near psychedelic quest to see and feel every possible arrangement of changing light and pattern. Pinks, blues, green and grey are forever shifting shapes. Paraphrasing Peter Schjeldahl of another original, “she keeps her own counsel”. And that’s a good thing."
- R K Mills