Scott Everingham
Thursday, 25 March 2010
I rarely remember my dreams, but when I do, they are always in full colour. The environment is always fully formed - each detail, each intricacy laid out with utmost clarity. Unbound by the physical constraints of reality, it is exuberant and phantasmagoric. I never want to leave…
Scott Everingham creates environments that are at once tangible and indeterminate, acting as modes of escape to fictional or alternative realities. In these spaces, oil paint makes up the structure and life of architecture and human presence, and its materiality is used as a tool to characterize familiar signs and forms. His approach to the development of a painting is impulsive and instinctual, with each mark informing the next - producing work that is both deliberate and spontaneous. Everingham’s ambiguous, unfamiliar settings – with broken structures and visceral anatomy made from the language of paint – may suggest an insecure state of being, but may also bear moments of utopian renewal.
For more information on Toronto-based Everingham’s work, please visit his website. Additional text sourced from Jennifer Kostuik Gallery.