Michael Scoggins
dal 4/3/2004 al 12/4/2004
Segnalato da
4/3/2004
Michael Scoggins
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art - Old location, New York
Paper Works, a presentation of recent work by Michael Scoggins, the artist's first solo exhibition in New York. Scoggins' work delves into the inevitable loss of innocence thatwe all experience as we mature. He uses many well-trodden childhood tropes such as homework assignments, action figures and doodles, love letters etc. to address our most primal emotions.
Paper Works
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to present Paper Works, a
presentation of recent work by Michael Scoggins, the artist's first solo
exhibition in New York.
Scoggins' work delves into the inevitable loss of innocence that
we all experience as we mature. He uses many well-trodden childhood
tropes such as homework assignments, action figures and doodles, love
letters etc. to address our most primal emotions. These commonplace
images relate his experience and childhood memories to our own.
Scoggins converts his old childhood drawings and letters into
life-size images. These iconic images are rendered on reproductions of
children's notebook paper. The familiarity of these objects communicates
a message, at once both personal and universal, bringing the viewer face
to face with their own childhood. What we experience in our childhood
doesn't get better only bigger. Standing in front of these oversized
images reverses the common perception that it is only as children that
we can experience ourselves as Gulliver among giants. The naivete of
these vehicles imbues the work with a type of uncensored expression that
grants them freedom and candidness.
Scoggins evokes the pleasures and traumas of childhood.
Everything from the joy of your favorite action figure and the elicit
pleasure of throwing a paper ball across the class room behind the
teacher's back to the terror of tests and the pain of puppy love, are
fodder for Scoggins' imagination. This takes on another twist in the
Army Base series, where Scoggins conveys his conception of the ultimate
patriotic message instilled in American children. These images are
viscerally rendered on large handmade sheets of paper. Crushing,
wrinkling, tearing and folding the paper, situates the work between the
two and the three dimensional. The conjunction of physical and the
visual poignantly evoke our realities of growing up.
Michael Scoggins was raised in Virginia and currently lives,
works and studies in Savannah, GA. He holds a MFA in painting and a BA
in Fine Arts and Political Science.
In the image: 'Power',graphite, marker, Prisma on paper 67x51 inches, 2004.
Join Priska Juschka and the artist at the gallery for an opening
reception
on Friday, March 5th from 7:00 to 10:00 PM.
Please join us for Williamsburg After Hours, Friday, March 12th,
6pm-12pm
Free Bus transport will be available to Williamsburg from
the 2 entrances of the Pier Armory Show from 7-8:30 PM
Gallery hours: Wednesday through Monday 12:00 to 6:00 PM or by
appointment.
Priska Juschka
97 North 9th Street, (Berry Street & Wythe Ave.) Brooklyn, NY 11211
T: 718 782-4100 F: 718 782-4800