November 21 - January 1, 2021
From the gallery:
“Faith Scott Jessup Statement November 2020
My paintings are equal parts invention and description. While the work has a high degree of verisimilitude, realism is not the point. Rather, detailed description is a by-product of sustained observation and contemplation.
I find and collect small, often overlooked objects during my daily walks. Sometimes these items—stones, leaves, shells, twigs– intimately observed, will converse with reimagined landscapes. At times, favorite stones or other things that have hovered around the edges of my life for years will be rediscovered and painted anew, given the fresh perspective of a new place. I have begun to re-contextualize my familiar objects and envision them floating with an improbable weightlessness in invented skies.
In this body of work, I imagine the natural world existing apart from our human preoccupations, arranging and rearranging itself, rising, falling, defying gravity at will. I find solace in the constancy of natural life forces that will endure, adapt and change in spite of our self-inflicted wounds. For myself, it’s about balance: to keep ones eye on the magic unfolding in the peeling bark on a tree or a glistening stone on a seashore, while looking heavenward at Camus’ “benign indifference of the universe.” And so, as always, I remind myself to pick up my brush and be quiet. Listen, touch, pay attention.”
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