Adam Scott
Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful
Exhibition Dates: September 10 - October 23, 2004

Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Chicago based artist Adam Scott. This will be Adam Scott's second solo exhibition with the gallery.

In his new series of paintings titled Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful, Scott describes his view of the American landscape. Continuing his technique of manipulating large amounts of flowing unadulterated paint, Scott's work physically embodies the state of fragility and uncertainty that inhabit these places. The paint is excessive, reckless, indulgent and seductive as it defines suburban A-frame homes, rural churches, and IHOP restaurants in over-saturated, unnatural colors. In several paintings faceless characters and disembodied objects from old cartoons begin to subtly invade the landscape. Sledgehammers hang in the sky ready to strike, pilgrims with telescopes surveil, and guns poke around trees. Their presence, though familiar and seemingly innocuous, evoke a time of paranoia and instability.

Adam Scott (b.1970) lives and works in Chicago. He has an upcoming solo exhibition at Galerie Schuster/Sheuermann in Berlin this fall and has exhibited solo exhibitions at Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt, 12x12: New Artists/New Work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage and Dogmatic Gallery, Chicago. Scott was also included in the group show Here and Now at the Chicago Cultural Center, curated by James Rondeau, Greg Knight, Lanny Silverman and Marianne Richter.

Adam Scott
Electric Avenue
Exhibition Dates: June 21 - July 20, 2002

Chocolate Factory, 2002
acrylic on canvas
70" x 76" x 24"

Adam Scott's new body of work consists of luscious paintings that are a romantic, paranoid, and juicy romp through the American landscape. Private moments and public locations are given a fluid topography that is both visually seductive and physically confrontational. An oblique cast of characters in puddles of over-saturated color hint to a warping psychedelic drug-scape or a melting plastic apocalyptic nightmare. These painted surfaces glimpse the uneasy pleasures, blunted horrors, and hypnotic habitats of our collective American consciousness. Adam Scott was born in 1970 in New York and lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. He has exhibited solo exhibitions at Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, and Dogmatic Gallery in Chicago, and has an upcoming solo exhibition in the MCA Chicago's series 12x12: New Artists/New Work curated by Staci Boris. Adam Scott is also Co-Founder of Deluxe Projects.