Scott Fife
Photo courtesy the Tacoma Art Museum
“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 X-acto knife, masking tape and glue—now it’s the screw gun. 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.”
Scott has been exhibiting his sculptures and drawings since 1976 in galleries in Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles and Vancouver, BC, and in museums including the Frye Museum (Seattle, WA), the Tacoma Art Museum (Tacoma, WA), the Boise Art Museum (Boise, ID), the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (Spokane, WA). The Missoula Art Museum (Missoula, MT) hosted a solo show of his work in the winter of 2010, and one of his sculptures was included in the Seattle Art Museum exhibition Kurt in the spring of 2010. The Tacoma Art Museum recently installed a bronze sculpture that the Museum commissioned Scott to create in cardboard which then was cast. Scott lives and works in Seattle.
SCULPTURES, DRAWINGS, PRINTS
ELVIS (1) 2009, archival cardboard, glue, screws, paint,
42 x 24 x 30 inches
ED KIENHOLZ (YOUNGER) 2008, archival cardboard, glue, screws and pigment, 26 x 18 x 21 inches
WER WULF 2007, archival cardboard, glue, screws,
25 x 25 x 34 inches
PICASSO 2003, archival cardboard, glue, screws,
24 x 12 x 12 inches
JOHNNY CASH 2004, archival cardboard, glue, screws, 16 x 19 x 14 inches
JUN FAN (aka Bruce Lee) 2007, archival cardboard, glue, screws, 26 x 12 x 16 inches
LIONEL HAMPTON 2006, archival cardboard, glue,
screws and pigment, 19 x 17 x 12 inches
Young Fidel, 2006, archival cardboard, glue, screws,
25 x 16 x 16 inches
POLAR BEAR 2011, archival cardboard, glue, screws, 26 x 27 x 47 inches
GIANT PANDA PURPLE AND BLUE 2011, archival cardboard, glue, screws, 18 x 23 x 23 inches inches
T. REX (left) 2009, ink wash on paper, 120 x 72 inches
T. REX (right) 2009, archival cardboard, glue, screws, paint, 64H x 41W x 64D inches
JIM MORRISON 2006, ink wash on paper, 60 x 50 inches (approx), $3,800
YOUNG GRIZZLY #2 2011, ink wash on Okawara Japanese paper, 72 x 38 inches, $2,000
HUMMINGBIRD (pink) edition of 10, plus 2 T/Ps; one plate, 2 colors a la poupee with Sekishu chine-colle; approximately 25 x 19 inches printed from sugar lift, spitbite, and aqua tint plates. Each are hand torn.
Printed by Sheila Coppola, Sidereal Press, Seattle. 4 remaining, $2,400 each
