Artist Scott Hill was born 1967 in Jersey City, New Jersey. He lives and works in New York City, Manhattan, New York, United States. With no formal education, Hill began studying art on his own and working as an artists assistant at the age of 16. A wealth of early experience in illustration, marketing, fabrication and construction led Hill toward developing a very unique and highly personal skill-set of technique's that demonstrate agility and deft in working as painter, sculptor and craftsman all at once. Since 2004 the artist has produced and extensive body of paintings and sculptures constructed of reclaimed, discarded materials revealing Hill as a leader of the Neopost-Modern Eco-Art movement. Hill's selection of palette is rooted in bright secondaries and drastic contrasts. His choice of material, color and style meld Abstract Impressionism with Dada and Pop. Within his work a debt of gratitude is extended to the deep influence of masters like Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Marcel Duchamp, Louise Nevelson, Lee Bontecou and Andy Warhol.

CV/ Highlights

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 Museum. Member of the Antagonist Art Movement NYC with 5 separate showings covering 16 2007 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 article 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 Independent artists presented my members of the Antagonist Art Movement , Berlin, Germany curated by Ted Reiner and Un Lee 2008 Member of The Fort Lee Artist's Guild, NJ Member of the Antagonist Art Movement NYC with 2 separate showings covering 8 2008 works. 6 featured works for the January 99 Dollar Art Fair presented by LBGRP Gallery, MPD, NYC curated by Jenn Cummins 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 curated by Hisa Yamamoto 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 5 featured works for the June 99 Dollar Art Fair presented by HPGRP Gallery, MPD, NYC curated by Hisa Yamamoto 2 featured works June through July for Avenue A Gallery Presented by Krissy Saccone., NYC Top Local artist, September, HelloNewYork.com 14 featured works for "The Beginning of New Classics" 4 person show of emerging NYC artists hosted by Destination Art Space, including Ezra Talmatch, John Ryan Solis, Scott Hill and Tokio Kuniyoshi. Curated by Hide Tachibana 2009 Member of The Fort Lee Artist's Guild, NJ Member of the Antagonist Art Movement NYC with 1 showing covering 4 2009 works. Host, curator and featured artist for "Objectadora" No.1 nomadic art show. January 24th Fort Lee NJ. co currator Leanna DeSheplo. 1 featured work for "Art Shmart" a benfit auction for "Room to Read" currated by Ashley Palmer and Anton Artemenko

Statement

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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