Bill Scott: A Recurrent Memory
September 15, 2023 - October 14, 2023
101 Stone Block Row, Breck's Mill, 2nd Floor, Greenville, DE 19807
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- Presented By: Somerville Manning Gallery
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Somerville Manning Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of work by painter Bill Scott on display from September 15 – October 14, 2023. An opening reception with the artist will be held on Friday, September 15 from 5:30-7:30 pm.
Bill Scott began his career studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1974 to 1979 but considers longer periods of working informally with painters Jane Piper and Joan Mitchell as the pivotal influences of his practice. An expert colorist, Scott draws from nature and his own imagination, making paintings that complicate firm boundaries between the abstract and the representational. Bill Scott’s paintings are radiant, with a quality of surface achieved through the thinnest applications of paint and the use of various techniques honed over decades. This radiance has remained a constant as his work continues to evolve and is visible in both his paintings and works on paper.
Scott has exhibited widely over the past three decades at museums that include Swarthmore College, Hollins University, the State Museum of Pennsylvania, the National Academy Museum, and the University of Delaware. Major public collections with Scott’s work include Cleveland Museum of Art, Delaware Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, and Woodmere Art Museum. In 2006, he was awarded a Distinguished Alumni award from the Pennsylvania Academy.
