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T. Rex, 2009, 64 x 41 x 64 inches; Elvis Presley, 2009, 42 x 24'x 30 inches
Photo by Mark Davison
September 3 to October 10, 2024

Link to images from the exhibition.

Platform Gallery is pleased to mark its Fifth Anniversary with the gallery's third solo exhibition of the work of Scott Fife titled American Beauty. Scott's work continues to explore definitions of history, self and celebrity but in increasingly more fragmentary and elemental ways. His sculptures of archival cardboard, glue, and drywall screws, are over-sized to reflect the importance, as well as our our inflated views, of culture's extra-ordinary subjects. In this show, Western North America's Tyrannosaurus Rex joins Mississippi's Elvis Presley, both kings in their own right, to dominate the exhibition space. Elvis, like a sullen Roman God of Rock, is matched by the fierce depiction of the King of the Dinosaurs.

Scott Fife has been exhibiting his sculptures and drawings since 1976 in galleries in Berlin, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Vancouver, BC, and in museums including the Frye Museum (Seattle, WA), the Tacoma Art Museum, the Boise Art Museum, the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (Spokane, WA), the Weatherspoon Museum (Greensboro, NC), and the Museum of Northwest Art (La Conner, WA).
The Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana is currently hosting a solo show of his work through February, 2010, and his work will be included in the upcoming Seattle Art Museum exhibition "Kurt" in the spring of 2010. Scott lives and works in Seattle.

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