Infected by Art Book - Volume 8

Scott Hutchison was born in Indianola Iowa and received his BFA in 1995 at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa and an MFA in painting from The George Washington University in 1999. He is an Associate Professor of Practice in painting and drawing at Georgetown University in Washington DC and currently resides in Arlington Virginia where he works out of his home studio. His artwork has been featured in a variety of venues regionally and nationally. Most recently, Scott’s work was accepted for display in Dover Delaware at Biggs Body 2019 where his piece titled “Vertigo” was acquired by The Biggs Museum of American Art’s permanent collection. Currently, his work is on display for Mind|Body|Soul at The Smith Center for Healing Arts in Washington DC, Painting the Figure Now at The Zhou B Art Center in Chicago and Inside Out, Outside In at RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton NY. Highlights from his solo exhibition record include: Hybrids – Paintings by Scott Hutchison at Spagnuolo South, Georgetown University in Washington DC (2018) Synchronicity – Paintings by Scott Hutchison, at The Hillyer Arts Space in Washington DC (2016) and In Sequence, at the Blackrock Center for the Arts in Germantown Maryland (2014), In 2018, Scott received the highly competitive Strauss Artist Grant from Virginia’s Fairfax County Arts Council in acknowledgment of his artistic accomplishments. 

Name:	Scott Hutchison
Joined:	November 2017
Projects:	My paintings and drawings are conceived by combining the use of photography, animation techniques, projections, and digital manipulation to create multifaceted figures that appear to move and animate. One painting may consist of four or five different time frames. Overlapping echoes, a figure may merge into another or become a haunting monstrous abstraction. My compositions are piece together digitally; influenced heavily by my experience creating oil painted animations. In animation, the viewer sees a moving image; created by separate time frames shown in quick succession. However, in this body of work the viewer is presented with multiple time frames at once. The result is a body of work that embraces realism, surrealism and abstraction. Each piece is intentionally shrouded in mystery, letting the viewer interpret its various meanings. However, I am fascinated by time, the idea of self, and the way in which I can evoke an urgency of being freed from the confines of self. Life is a series of ever changing events and time in its infinite step changes us. In an age of selfies, one portrait, or one moment in time does not capture the essence of who we are. We are many things.
Location:	Washington DC