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Michael Scott (b.1958)
Concentric Variable Lines #11
Archival ink and graphite on paper/NFT
1988/2022
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For over 30 years, artist Michael Scott has been creating paintings that are programmatic and precisely calculated with systematic patterns. His first body of works known as the Forty Circles explored the concepts of equality and individuality of works in bodies or series. In his current series Concentric Variable Lines, Scott continues his systematic exploration into the beauty of variability but examines the duality of art existing in both the physical world as well as the metaverse. This series of 40 works began with Scott’s mathematical formula approach captured on paper then fully realized as unique NFT’s in the metaverse.
“I always have an idea what the finished painting will look like before I start it, but I start it nonetheless because I want to realize that idea visually.”
-Michael Scott
About the Artist
Michael Scott has been part of the New York contemporary art scene since the early 1980s, creating paintings that are visual experiences pushed to the extreme. Scott juxtaposes narrow vertical lines on aluminum panels, at times in different colors and patterns, producing a disruptive optical impact that compels the viewer to see these works anew each time.
During the 1990s, his paintings were programmatic, precisely calculated with systematic patterns, but they later became more intuitive, allowing chance and process to be evident. Steering away from subjectivity, Michael Scott currently explores an artistic approach which, though pure and linear in form, remains painterly.