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Andrew Scott creates monumental figurative sculpture constructed from welded steel and wire mesh inspired by African spiritual and ceremonial figures. Sparked by the controversy, racial tension and intense media scrutiny surrounding the death of Nathanial Jones in Cincinnati on November 30, 2003, Scott will create a new site-specific installation in the gallery’s street-level exhibition space that addresses conflicting views of race, drugs, obesity and police brutality.
Andrew Scott: "Concept Drawing"
Andrew Scott earned a bachelor of fine arts from Long Island University, South Hampton, NY, in 1986 and a master of fine arts from The Ohio State University in 1988. From 1988-91 he was a doctoral student at The Ohio State University in the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design. His sculpture has been exhibited extensively in Columbus, OH including: the Columbus Museum of Art, the King Arts Complex, and the Ohio Arts Council’s Vern Riffe Center Gallery. He has exhibited nationally at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; Long Island University, South Hampton, NY; and the National Black Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA. He has been the recipient of numerous Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships and has completed major public commissions in cities throughout Ohio including: Columbus, New Albany, Wilberforce and Dublin. In summer 2004, he relocated from Columbus, OH to Savannah, GA to accept a teaching position at Savannah College of Art and Design where he currently serves as a professor of foundation studies.
Andrew Scott, Installation View, 2004
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The Cincinnati Arts Association’s Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery in the Aronoff Center for the Arts premieres three new exhibitions: A Perfect Storm, a contemplative and provocative site-specific installation by Andrew Scott; Looking in a Distance, a new series of lyrical and lush abstracted landscape paintings by renowned painter Beverly Erschell; and Add-ons, an inventive new series of bronze sculptures and large-scale black and white drawings by acclaimed Cincinnati sculptor Stuart Fink.
Andrew Scott, Installation View, 2004
In A Perfect Storm, Scott references the four turbulent issues that tragically converged on that fateful day as a metaphor represented through the juxtaposition of two disparate symbols in the installation: a monumental wire mesh bust of Jones situated on the floor that recalls the nobility of Mexican Olmec heads and the Oba heads found in African Benin bronze sculpture, and a series of six monumental welded steel batons suspended menacingly above, representing the police officers attempting to restrain Jones. The two contrasting components of the installation serve to reinforce the contradictory images of Jones following his death and his subsequent dehumanization and transformation through the media as both an object of scorn and symbol of resistance and pride.
Andrew Scott, Installation View, 2004
A Perfect Storm is generously sponsored
by the Dr. Stanley and Mickey Kaplan Foundation.
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Beverly Erschell is well-recognized in the Cincinnati area and beyond as a painter of exceptional talent. Her expressive and lush oil paintings have received much public and critical acclaim, and are well-represented in numerous private, corporate and museum collections. In a
dedicated career spanning thirty years, she has held an unwavering fascination and keen eye for observing landscape, particularly abstract qualities inherent in the juxtaposition of color, line and form. Looking in a Distance continues Erschell’s investigations into abstracted landscape, both natural and urban, through a new series of lyrical paintings and works on paper that seek to heighten nature’s palette and invent moments of pure clarity.
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Beverly Erschell: "View From Rookwood," 2004, Oil on Canvas
Beverly Erschell earned a bachelor of fine arts in 1969 and a master of fine arts in 1971 from the University of Cincinnati. She has developed an extensive exhibition history that includes such local and regional venues as the Miller Gallery, the College of Mount Saint Joseph, the Contemporary Arts Center and the Dayton Art Museum. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally at Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY; Venable Neslage Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Sherry French Gallery, Boca Raton, FL; and the David Dike Gallery in Dallas, TX. Her work is represented in numerous private, corporate and museum collections including: Cincinnati Art Museum, Dayton Art Museum, American Financial, Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati Financial, Cincinnati Bell, Corporex and the University of Cincinnati.
Beverly Erschell, Installation View, 2004
Looking in a Distance is generously sponsored
by Nancy Taylor Stix.
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A longtime resident of Cincinnati, Stuart Fink has securely established himself as an acclaimed and accomplished sculptor with an extensive exhibition history. He has also completed numerous public sculpture commissions in Cincinnati and throughout Ohio, working in aluminum, cast concrete and granite. Arriving at sculpture through painting and drawing, Fink combines figurative and urban landscape elements to create intriguing three-dimensional forms. In his most recent work, Fink has employed the time-honored tradition of bronze casting to create a new series of abstracted sculpture that juxtaposes unrelated and secondary shapes to create new
forms and associations. Add-ons will feature an array of new pedestal-based bronze sculptures conceived and cast in the past two years by Fink. Complementing the bronzes will be a new series of large-scale black and white drawings that boldly accentuate two-dimensional explorations of the sculptural forms.
Stuart Fink, Installation View, 2004
Stuart Fink, Installation View, 2004
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Stuart Fink, Installation View, 2004
Stuart Fink earned a bachelor of fine arts in 1971 and a master of fine arts in 1973 from the University of Cincinnati. His work has been exhibited locally at the Contemporary Arts Center, Toni Birckhead Gallery, and C.A.G.E.; and regionally at SPACES, Cleveland, OH; Nationwide Gallery, Columbus, OH; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH; and the Worthington Art Council, Worthington, OH. He has exhibited nationally at the Sculpture Center, New York, NY; and Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C. Fink has completed major public sculpture commissions in cities throughout Ohio including: Cincinnati, Columbus, Lima, Hamilton, and Toledo.
Stuart Fink, Installation View With Sculpture Untitled #17, 2004
Add-ons is generously sponsored
by an Anonymous Friend.
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