F. Scott Hess will present a lecture on Friday, January 16 at 5:00 pm in the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, Room 102. Hess is one of six painters featured in the exhibition, Slow Hand, on view at the Grunwald Gallery of Art from Friday, January 16 through Friday, February 13. An opening reception will follow Hess’s lecture from 6:00 – 8:00 pm at the Grunwald Gallery.
F. Scott Hess attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria, and Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, earning a BSA from the University of Wisconsin in 1977. He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Fellowship and a J. Paul Getty Museum Individual Artist’s Fellowship. He is represented by Hirschl and Adler Modern in New York and Koplin Del Rio Gallery in Los Angeles. He currently teaches at the Laguna College of Art and Design.
The exhibition Slow Hand aims to emphasize the rewards of sensuous touch and imagination in recent painting. Departing from the strictly observed gives the artist free reign in the manipulation of the chosen subject matter. In opposing the perceptual or ocular response to a given subject, the artists in this exhibit approach painting from a conceptual and conceived perspective, resulting in imaginative and sometimes fantastical images that are narrative in nature. Rather than being subservient to the literal appearance of the world or by only admitting events and characters that are likely to occur in everyday life, the artist allows the imaginative and subconscious point of view to exist or even dominate. These artists frequently use techniques, such as glazing or an obsessive attention to detail, that could not be accomplished using perceptual techniques. This way of developing a painting privileges the emotional and psychological over the journalistic and quotidian – or rather, it allows the journalistic and the quotidian to be transformed in order to arrive at a greater emotional and psychological truth.
Cost: Free and open to the public
For more information contact:
Betsy Stirratt
(812)855-8490
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