Glasgow, Scotland
100W 3rd Floor Studio
Scott Myles’ context-specific configurations of text, architecture, and image are conceptually stimulated by economic notions of commodity vs. gift: What is the artists’ contribution in brokering, subverting, or recovering practices of gift exchange?
Although much of his recent practice has engaged printmaking, Scott returns to painting for the patient practice of creating hand-rendered work. By pairing down technology to only a brush and hand-mixing paints to create one large-scale work, Scott resists the immediacy of printing and the commodification of the artmaking process. His labor becomes the central gift to the viewer.
Residency Focus: Stimulated by his experience in Texas, land of oil, cars, and indefatigable heat, Scott focuses the exhibition around a single work, ‘Big Car’ (2022) —a 15 ft x 6.5-foot painting of an orange Dodge Challenger created for his solo show entitled ‘Pompeii’ which opened June 3rd with ‘Swim Club’ art space at the Power Station in Dallas.
Retro-inspired muscle cars are a ready-made symbol of masculine bravado. However, precarity and instability exist on the surface of Pompeii. Hazmat orange against a loosely-painted ground of aqua green makes the painting vibrate with environmental tension, evoking the idea of a nervous future under revision.
