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| Biography |
 Scott Hill has a deeply spiritual bond to art. He sites "creativity" as the "religion" in his life. For him, the worship of this "creative life force" manifests in an insatiable thirst for knowledge and a search for "All that is possible in the world". A true self taught renaissance man, this life-long Bergen County NJ resident began showing an affinity for design at age 6, and has been painting, building, decorating and sculpting, ever since. Scott grew up as an only-child, suburbanite "latch-key kid" in the shadow of New York City. He passed much of the time after school drawing, and experimenting with the various tools and materials he found on his Fathers basement woodworking bench. Nails, wire, cardboard, string, metal and wood became his childhood toys of choice. Born into a large extended family of professional dancers, musicans and theatrical players, his expressions were fostered by eveyrone around him as an un-deniable gift. As an adolecent, Hill amerced himself in studying the technique of the artists that adorned the album covers in his music collection. "Artist like Roger Dean, Rodney Matthews, Derek Riggs and Stanley Mouse became the foundation of all my early work." states Hill. Soon after, he discovered Maxfield Parish, and Alberto Varga to guide him toward the study of realism in watercolor, gouache, and ink. After many years of working strictly in realism, Hill eventually felt his work lacking passion and pursued a career in his other passion of music. In 2005 Hill began a 2 year apprenticeship in tattooing which has re-ignited his love of fine art. He began a personal quest to live his art as a profession, and to study classic and modern art history and technique. Recently his painting and collage work has been highly influenced by, and at time seems reminiscent of artists like Joan Miro, Arshile Gorky, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jackson Pollack, Roy Lichtenstein, Willie Cole and Arthur Dove. His style is a modern, delicate, balance of Abstract Impressionism, Pop art, and touch of Surrealist Dada. Scott has also melded his personal passion for environmentalism into his art by utilizing old, worn, vintage, or disposed of items. Turning back to his original childhood fascination with raw materials, He works in an almost instinctual way with found and donated materials such as denim, string, wood, fibers, foam, reclaimed leftover paint, bio-degradables, glass, cardboard, and printed papers. |
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2007 Member of The Fort Lee Artist's Guild, NJ. Presenting work at The Fort Lee Art and Music Festival, The Fort Lee Public Library, and The Fort Lee Cultural Musuem. Member of the Antagonist Art Movement NYC with 5 seperate showings covering 16 unique works. Member of The Creskill Arts council presenting at The Creskill Arts Festival Presenting at The Fairlawn GALA Arts Foundation benefit. Featured fashion designer for Indie Rock and Fashion runway show and ball to benefit St Lukes Childrens Hospital, Chicago , IL Fashion design feature artical for Defunckt magazine issue 4. Featured fashion designer for Defunckt Magazine annual runway show. Presenting at Howl Art Festival, Greenwich Village, NYC Winner of Best Black and Grey Tattoo design sheet competition , Mario Barth's Biggest Tattoo Show on Earth Expo, Meadowlands Convention Center Participant in "Suitcase tour" of NYC Independant artists presented my members of the Antagonist Art Movement , Berlin, Germany 2008 Member of The Fort Lee Artist's Guild, NJ 6 featured works for the January 99 Dollar Art Fair presented by LBGRP Gallery, MPD, NYC Auctioned work to benefit The National Autism Society, presented by WBBE BobFM Radio, Hosted by on air personality Ron West, Chicago, IL Tattoo Society magazine, Issue No. 8 Top Local artist, January, HelloNewYork.com 3 featured works for the March 99 Dollar Art Fair presented by LBGRP Gallery, MPD, NYC Top Local artist, March, HelloNewYork.com 3 featured works for through April for Avenue A Gallery Presented by Mike A., NYC Inclusion to "Small Works" for Reflect-arts presented by Juliette Pelletier at Agni Gallery, LES, NYC |
| Statement |
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Artist Statement:
Knowing that the things I create will most likely physically out last my lifetime; as matter of principle, I work primarily with found materials. Assembled as art or decomposing in a landfill, my work is born out of a dire necessity to no longer contribute to the wasting of the resources our beautiful planet has so graciously provided. So, it is most interesting to me to create something thought provoking and beautiful from the things our society has deemed disposable and ugly. From this earthly reverence, my work always progresses organically, and the collecting of objects for future use is its genesis. I feel compelled to save, and the things I save, inspire me to create. I see an object in its existing state, and then analyze its current man-made form and the space that it occupies. Contemplating its intended use, I concentrate on its emotional value. I feel that each object speaks deeply to me about what it presently is, and what it aspires to represent in the context of my evolving ideal for it. I arrange, balance, and reshape it, while trying not to completely lose sight of the materials prior identity. Before a piece becomes definitive, I open my mind to infinite levels of possibility, random accidents, and experimentation concerning both the materials and subject matter. Multiples allude to patterns and textures. Surfaces inspire color pallets. Paint hardens into adhesive. The divisions between painting, collage and sculpture blur. As I am working, I am constantly thinking in three dimensions, and while I am constructing, in my mind I feel as if I am painting. For me, there is no division between the two actions. I have no prejudice as to what may become my canvas, my paint, or my tools. All matter has significance and spirituality to be utilized. In the end, I am only concerned with the emotion a piece is evoking in me through the sum of its parts, and it is finished, only when it has reached a high point of this emotion and stands on its own as a new universe of focused thought to be contemplated by others. |
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