Judith Scott's art is marked by great power. The Smith-Nederpelt Collection.
Untitled (detail), 1988. Judith Scott (1943-2005) was a visual artist isolated from outside influences as a result of the impact of deafness and Down’s syndrome. Untitled, 2004. In 2014, the Brooklyn Museum held the first comprehensive survey of Scott’s works in an exhibition titled Judith Scott: Bound and Unbound. © Creative Growth Art Center. (68.6 × 58.4 × 43.2 cm). In the 18 years Scott made her work she never repeated a form or color scheme. (142.2 × 71.1 × 30.5 cm). On April 1, 1987, Judith Scott began attending the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, one of the first organizations in the world to provide studio space for artists with disabilities. Scott constructed a number of pieces with similar relief-like surfaces that, when hung on a wall, feel fluid or imply movement, while when presented horizontally appear more fixed and grounded.Judith Scott’s work is celebrated for its astonishing visual complexity.
Creative Growth, Oakland, California. The removal of the cart’s two front wheels renders the piece immobile, and thus stabilizes it, while also giving a sense of precarious imbalance.Judith Scott (American, 1943‒2005). Her sculptures made of found objects and materials, wrapped in yarn and textiles, exude a sense of mystery not only through their visual appeal, but through what they conceal. Judith Scott—Bound and Unbound is organized by Catherine J. Morris, Sackler Family Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, and Matthew Higgs, artist and Director/Chief Curator of White Columns, New York. The Museum of Everything, London. Judith Scott’s work was exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum in New York in the largest retrospective of her work to date. Untitled, 1994. It is the only completely monochromatic work she made (though a work from 2004, also included in this exhibition, has a very similar palette, with the addition of a variegated purple spine).Judith Scott (American, 1943‒2005). Untitled, 1989. While in some works the colors are distinct and starkly juxtaposed against each other, others reveal a more subtle mixing and shading of hues.Scott made her work sitting at a large table in the Creative Growth studio, so that the objects were executed in a horizontal position. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)Judith Scott (American, 1943‒2005). During her lifetime, she gained international acclaim, and since her passing in 2005, her work has continued to earn critical recognition in major publications and exhibitions.Byrne, David, Bicycle Diaries, Penguin/Viking, New York, 2009. (Photos: © Leon Borensztein)Judith Scott (American, 1943‒2005). She was unexceptional with paint. Creative Growth, Oakland, California. Her sculptures made of found objects and materials, wrapped in yarn and textiles, exude a sense of mystery not only through their visual appeal, but also in what they conceal.
© Creative Growth Art Center. After two years of relative disinterest, Scott began to work with yarn and fiber in the workshop setting, and was encouraged to forge a visual and material language all her own.More than simply works of art made to pass the time, these colorful, often intimidating cocoons carry the force of her will to reckon, to remember, to communicate, and to reinvent herself. (43.2 × 27.9 cm). After thirty-five years living within an institutional setting for people with disabilities, she was introduced in 1987 to Creative Growth Art Center—a visionary studio art program founded more than forty years ago in Oakland, California, to foster and serve a community of artists with developmental and physical disabilities.As the first comprehensive U.S. survey of Scott’s work, this retrospective exhibition includes an overview of three-dimensional objects spanning the artist’s career as well as a selection of works on paper.This exhibition is made possible by the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation. The scale and intricate mass of materials would have required assistance to turn and move the object as Scott worked. Collection of Orren Davis Jordan and Robert Parker. The Smith-Nederpelt Collection. Exhibition 410: At the Border of Art and Life Dates to be announced Collection gallery MoMA 1 work online Show previous results Judith Scott Untitled 2002 Show more results Last » Licensing.