Scott Fife

click on image to enlarge & view more Read an interview with Scott See a time-lapse video of the making of Lionel Hampton		EDUCATION 1972University of Idaho, Bachelors of Architecture 1976Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Bachelor of Art SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2007"True Grit," Platform Gallery, Seattle “Big Trouble: The Idaho Project,” and “Shapers of the Twentieth Century,” Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID (cat.) 2006“Geronimo!,” Tony Wight/Bodybuilder and Sportsman, Chicago, IL 2005“Big Trouble: The Idaho Project,” Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT “Big Trouble: The Idaho Project,” The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, WA “I Am What I Am,” Platform Gallery, Seattle “Heads,” Spokane Falls Community College, Spokane, Washington 2004Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma 2003Bodybuilder and Sportman’s Gallery, Chicago The Evergreen State College Gallery, Olympia, Washington 1999Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle 1998Butch Blum, Seattle 1997Lead Gallery, Seattle 1996Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, Washington 1994Cornish Art Institute, Seattle Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho & Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane 1992Henry Art Gallery, Seattle 1991Fuller/Elwood Gallery, Seattle 1990Galerie Redmann, Berlin 1989Fuller/Elwood Gallery, Seattle 1987Ed Kienholz’s Faith, Hope & Charity Gallery, Hope, Idaho 1985Galerie Redmann, Berlin 1979Diane Gilson Gallery, Seattle 1976Olson-Walker Gallery, Seattle GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2007"Beauty is Embarrassing," Western Project, Los Angeles 2007Frida Kahlo: images of an Icon, Tacoma Art Museum 2006Art LA with Platform Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Retrospective 20; I, Port Angeles Fine Art Center; Port Angeles, WA Group Show, Valerie Carberry; Chicago, curated by Tony Wight Swallow Harder: Selections from the Ben and Aileen Krohn Collection, Frye Museum Seattle 2005“Nouvelle Nuptials,” San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design Aqua Art Miami with Platform Gallery, Miami Beach, FL 2004“Seattle Collects,” City of Seattle 2003“Crossroads: New Art from the Northwest,” COCA, Seattle “Sense of Place,” Prichard Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID “Umbrella,” Bumbershoot Exhibit, Seattle 2000Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle 1998Group Show, “Animals,” Galerie Redmann, Berlin 1997“Friends of Kienholz,” Galerie Redmann, Berlin and Koln Art Fair 1995“Miracle on 34th Street,” Fremont Arts Council/NW Aids Foundation “Demolition Party,” The Henry Art Gallery “Fallen Timber,” Tacoma Art Museum 1994“Die Dritte Dimension” (The Third Dimension), Galerie Redmann, Berlin 1993“American Friends,” Galerie Redmann, Berlin “Set The Table: Art & Food,” 1992FUEL Gallery, Seattle 1991Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1990“Radio Sehen,” Kunstverein Slegen 1989The University Art Gallery, Albany, NY Galerie Redmann, Berlin 1988Discovery Gallery, Long Island, NY 1987Pritchard Gallery, Moscow, Idaho “10 Jahre Galerie Redmann,” Galerie Redmann, Berlin “The Inland Empire,” Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco 1987“Materialisation,” Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim 1986“Station Berlin,” Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 1984“5 Amerikanische Kunstler,” Galerie Redmann, Berlin 1984“Sammlung Stahl,” Berlinische Galerie, Berlin “12 Meister des Trompe L’oiel,” Galerie Redmann, Berlin 1983“Kunst und Technik,” Museum fur Verkehr und Technik, Berlin Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. 1982Internationale Kunstmesse, Basel1978 Foster-White Gallery, Seattle COLLECTIONS Microsoft, Redmond, Washington City of Seattle Swedish Hospital, Seattle, Safeco Company, Safeco Field, Seattle The State of Washington The Tacoma Art Museum Berlinische Galerie (City of Berlin), Berlin Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin-Kienholz, Hope, Idaho Sammlung Froer, Oftersheim, Germany Mandy and Clifford Einstein, Los Angeles Sheryl Conkelton and Joseph Newland, Seattle Klauis und Bisela Groenke, Berlin Sammlung Stahl, Berlin, Germany Paul and Roberta K. Thompson, London Zewawell, Mannheim, Germany Gordon Walker Architect, Seattle Karen Weinstein, Los Angeles Ruth Braunstein, Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco Hans and Helga Redmann, Berlin Better Asher, Asher-Faure Gallery, Los Angeles Helfreid und Elisabeth Gast, Munchen/Baldham Blue Cross of Southern California, Los Angeles Beth de Woody, New York Aileen and Ben Krohn, Seattle Urs and Annabella Ris, Ascona, Switzerland Richard Schwartz, Portland, OR
"I like the physical nature of building the sculpture–it seems very old-fashioned and traditional. The idea of the material itself–it’s friendly, flexible, there’s a glow from in it. I’m the full-service artist–doing it all at the moment. I like the aspect of the low-tech tools that I need to make something like this. In the beginning [it was] an Xacto knife, masking tape and glue–now it’s the screwgun. So that hasn’t changed much at all–the directness of it, that I could begin to shape this, I can make this very plastic without any special process. There is that sense of one person building this thing–it becomes a “feat”–the whole thing isn’t about that but within the world we live in right now, it makes it a kind of tribal ritual piece; the fact that it was done by the human hand. [That] takes people back to the place in their life where they remember pasting things together [and so] understanding the process. They can feel comfortable looking at artwork and they can take it further but it’s approachable, it’s a big dog!"




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