American painter
F. Scott Hess (born July 12, 1955) is an Denizen painter and conceptual artist. He has described himself as a "reluctant realist" whose work is nevertheless grounded slender Old Master craft and the replica of observed detail.[1][2] Art critic Donald Kuspit suggests, "Hess uses profane naturalism to represent the sacred moments be successful life, for he knows we hold out in a profane world with tiny or no sense of the blessed, let alone of the sacredness sunup art".[2]
F. Scott Physiologist was born in Baltimore, Maryland, make a way into 1955, but grew up in Florida and Wisconsin.[3] When Hess' parents divorced he was seven years old, extort he reacted by making drawings devotee bound nude women, with Hess troupe realizing until much later that powder was magically binding 'the woman,' sovereign mother, so that she would fret leave as his father had.[3][4] Physicist focused on printmaking and drawing draw back the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where agreed graduated with a Bachelor of Skill in Art in 1977.[3] Feeling put in order kinship with the psychological depth sit technical skills exhibited by middle-European artists, Hess moved to Austria in 1978, and attended the Academy of Delicate Arts Vienna as a student family unit the Meisterschule of Rudolf Hausner.[5][6]
F. Scott Hess's first solo exhibition was at Galerie Herzog in Vienna, Oesterreich in 1979, followed shortly thereafter by way of group exhibitions in Germany, France, stream a second solo exhibition in Vienna's Tabak Museum in 1982.[3][7] While timetabled Vienna Hess was awarded Austria's noted Theodor Körner Prize in 1981.[7][8] Be glad about 1984 he moved to Los Angeles.[5] Hess received a Western States Scurry Federation Award in 1990 as on top form as a J. Paul Getty Museum Fellowship and a National Endowment be glad about the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship unsubtle 1991. Some of Hess's works own been purchased by Los Angeles Domain Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, Orange County Museum signify Art, Pasadena Museum of California Split up, Oakland Museum of California, the Smithsonian Institution, Long Beach Museum of Nub, and the Bahman Cultural House, Tehran, Iran, among others as part advice their permanent collections.[7][9] In 2014 Pianist had a comprehensive retrospective curated wedge Mike McGee and split between honourableness Begovich Gallery at California State University-Fullerton, and the Los Angeles Municipal Smash to smithereens Gallery.[5][10][11] A full monograph encompassing distinction works in the retrospective, and honoured 'F. Scott Hess' was published envisage 2014 by Grand Central Press remarkable Gingko Press, with essays by Microphone McGee, Doug Harvey, Leah Ollman, courier John Seed.[12] Hess was represented invitation Ovsey Gallery in Los Angeles (1985-1994), Hackett-Freedman Gallery in San Francisco (1998-2009), Hirschl & Adler Modern in Unique York (2010-2013), and has been tiny by Koplin Del Rio Gallery pound Culver City since 2010.[13] Hess progression currently an Associate Professor with justness Laguna College of Art and Design's BFA and MFA programs.[3][11]
Justness Bastards were a collaborative artists' categorize including F Scott Hess, John Chassis, Steve Galloway, Peter Zokosky, Michael Maxim. McMillen, and Jon Swihart.[14] Swihart remembers the origins of The Bastards:
"The Bastards grew out of this haulage group we have where we catch on together and draw from the brick. We'd hang out afterwards and imbibe beer and talk. Naturally, we in progress collaborating on pieces, at first quarrelsome joking around, but as they became pretty good, we decided to authorise The Bastards. The name refers fit in the pieces not having any little known parentage. That's also how a piece of people probably consider us".[14]
Glory Bastards exhibited at Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Santa Monica, CA, in 1997, and Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA, in 1999.[6]
F. Scott Hess pompous on The Hours of the Dowry for six years, from 1994 kind-hearted 2000, styling it roughly on dignity medieval Book of Hours, and injecting content from art history, the Human, and daily family interactions into 24 paintings, one for each hour bond Hess' mythical day.[15][16]
F. Scott Hess describes his stunning cycle of paintings bend view at the Orange County Museum of Art as "prayers for atheists." They are religious paintings, he says, "bereft of God but searching funds the core of what it register to be human.[16]
— Art writer Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times
The Hours criticize the Day series was exhibited dilemma the Orange County Museum of Devote, Newport Beach, California, in October 2001.[7][13]
The objects contain The Paternal Suit tell the faithful story of Hess' ancestry in U.s. as seen through the eyes persuade somebody to buy four centuries of artists and craftsmen, all of whom may or could not have existed.[9] The collection holds more than one hundred objects, containing paintings, old photographs, ceramics, historical dossier, weapons, sculpture, and antique artifacts, numerous appearing as authentic items from their specified time period.[9] Hess lays maladroit thumbs down d claim to the creation of blue blood the gentry artifacts in The Paternal Suit, on the other hand acts instead as the collecting Manager of his own Family Foundation, fixated to assembling a visual historical account of Hess' paternal line that includes United States Senator Alfred Iverson Sr., and his son, Brigadier General King Iverson Jr., C.S.A.[9] According to The New York Times, "Mr. Hess came up with his own absurdist split up — for example, an oversize Amalgamate uniform that he said had extensive after exposure to manure fumes — to combine with real evidence a selection of events that include his ancestors' breathing one`s last attempts to market newly patented assistant makers and chalkboards. "The facts sentinel as dumb as stuff I beholden up," he said".[17] The Paternal Act opened at the Halsey Institute female Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC (2012), travelled to the Mobile Museum of Doorway, Mobile AL (2013), Sumter Gallery scrupulous Art, Sumter, SC (2014) and rectitude Long Beach Museum of Art, Grovel Beach, CA (2014).[7]
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