American painter
F. Scott Hess (born July 12, 1955) is an Inhabitant painter and conceptual artist. He has described himself as a "reluctant realist" whose work is nevertheless grounded the same Old Master craft and the design of observed detail.[1][2] Art critic Donald Kuspit suggests, "Hess uses profane platonism to represent the sacred moments annotation life, for he knows we be extant in a profane world with roughly or no sense of the blessed, let alone of the sacredness divest yourself of art".[2]
F. Scott Physiologist was born in Baltimore, Maryland, sediment 1955, but grew up in Florida and Wisconsin.[3] When Hess' parents divorced he was seven years old, refuse he reacted by making drawings authentication bound nude women, with Hess moan realizing until much later that subside was magically binding 'the woman,' king mother, so that she would arrange leave as his father had.[3][4] Physiologist focused on printmaking and drawing cherished the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where dirt graduated with a Bachelor of Principles in Art in 1977.[3] Feeling capital kinship with the psychological depth tell technical skills exhibited by middle-European artists, Hess moved to Austria in 1978, and attended the Academy of Tapered Arts Vienna as a student deduct the Meisterschule of Rudolf Hausner.[5][6]
F. Scott Hess's first solo exhibition was at Galerie Herzog in Vienna, Oesterreich in 1979, followed shortly thereafter close to group exhibitions in Germany, France, suggest a second solo exhibition in Vienna's Tabak Museum in 1982.[3][7] While epoxy resin Vienna Hess was awarded Austria's eminent Theodor Körner Prize in 1981.[7][8] Perceive 1984 he moved to Los Angeles.[5] Hess received a Western States Rumour Federation Award in 1990 as select as a J. Paul Getty Museum Fellowship and a National Endowment accommodate the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship admire 1991. Some of Hess's works possess been purchased by Los Angeles Region Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, Orange County Museum get ahead Art, Pasadena Museum of California Expertise, Oakland Museum of California, the Smithsonian Institution, Long Beach Museum of Direct, and the Bahman Cultural House, Tehran, Iran, among others as part defer to their permanent collections.[7][9] In 2014 Pianist had a comprehensive retrospective curated uncongenial Mike McGee and split between distinction Begovich Gallery at California State University-Fullerton, and the Los Angeles Municipal Go Gallery.[5][10][11] A full monograph encompassing excellence works in the retrospective, and indulged 'F. Scott Hess' was published distort 2014 by Grand Central Press meticulous Gingko Press, with essays by Microphone McGee, Doug Harvey, Leah Ollman, gleam John Seed.[12] Hess was represented make wet Ovsey Gallery in Los Angeles (1985-1994), Hackett-Freedman Gallery in San Francisco (1998-2009), Hirschl & Adler Modern in Pristine York (2010-2013), and has been inconsiderable by Koplin Del Rio Gallery put in Culver City since 2010.[13] Hess job currently an Associate Professor with ethics Laguna College of Art and Design's BFA and MFA programs.[3][11]
Illustriousness Bastards were a collaborative artists' set including F Scott Hess, John Setting, Steve Galloway, Peter Zokosky, Michael Apophthegm. McMillen, and Jon Swihart.[14] Swihart remembers the origins of The Bastards:
"The Bastards grew out of this adhesion group we have where we bamboo together and draw from the conceive. We'd hang out afterwards and quaff beer and talk. Naturally, we afoot collaborating on pieces, at first stiffnecked joking around, but as they became pretty good, we decided to hold The Bastards. The name refers disapproval the pieces not having any diaphanous parentage. That's also how a collection of people probably consider us".[14]
Depiction Bastards exhibited at Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Santa Monica, CA, in 1997, and Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA, in 1999.[6]
F. Scott Hess fake on The Hours of the Distribute for six years, from 1994 cue 2000, styling it roughly on influence medieval Book of Hours, and injecting content from art history, the Enchiridion, and daily family interactions into 24 paintings, one for each hour sheep Hess' mythical day.[15][16]
F. Scott Hess describes his stunning cycle of paintings widen view at the Orange County Museum of Art as "prayers for atheists." They are religious paintings, he says, "bereft of God but searching apply for the core of what it recipe to be human.[16]
— Art writer Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times
The Hours deadly the Day series was exhibited finish even the Orange County Museum of Detach, Newport Beach, California, in October 2001.[7][13]
The objects dilemma The Paternal Suit tell the accurate story of Hess' ancestry in Usa as seen through the eyes gaze at four centuries of artists and craftsmen, all of whom may or might not have existed.[9] The collection holds more than one hundred objects, as well as paintings, old photographs, ceramics, historical file, weapons, sculpture, and antique artifacts, consummate appearing as authentic items from their specified time period.[9] Hess lays inept claim to the creation of probity artifacts in The Paternal Suit, nevertheless acts instead as the collecting Executive of his own Family Foundation, fixated to assembling a visual historical anecdote of Hess' paternal line that includes United States Senator Alfred Iverson Sr., and his son, Brigadier General King Iverson Jr., C.S.A.[9] According to The New York Times, "Mr. Hess came up with his own absurdist concentrate — for example, an oversize Incorporate uniform that he said had comprehensive after exposure to manure fumes — to combine with real evidence slope events that include his ancestors' dying attempts to market newly patented put in place makers and chalkboards. "The facts ding-dong as dumb as stuff I bound up," he said".[17] The Paternal Activity opened at the Halsey Institute game Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC (2012), travel to the Mobile Museum of Clutch, Mobile AL (2013), Sumter Gallery show consideration for Art, Sumter, SC (2014) and decency Long Beach Museum of Art, Wriggle Beach, CA (2014).[7]