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Artist: Scott Everingham
Show: Missing Persons
About the Show
Gallery: G+ GALLERIES
48-50 Gladstone Avenue
Toronto, Canada
Dates: June 23 - July 9
Hours: Tues-Sun, 1-6pm
Opening Reception: Friday June 23rd, 6pm - 8pm
After Reception: Drake Hotel, June 23rd, 8pm - 2am
Phone: 416 840 5549
URL: indexg.com
Current studies apply a dominance of frontal portraiture exploring each subject's lack of identity. They sit idle and are unresponsive, isolated, and silent. Each painting examines the limits of creating a visually unusual and turgid atmosphere while remaining sensitive to the relationship between the continuous observer (audience) and the sitter. In Missing Persons, there is an invariable association with classical portraiture in tone, composition, and figurative reference, though most of these elements have been intentionally subverted. The essential aspect of portraiture, the sitter as subject, seems to be redefined in the work through occlusion, provoking the viewer to engage the figure with decidedly little information. They are challenging examinations of the nature of identity, and a series of portraits dedicated to exposing the existence of the paradoxically absent human being.
Missing Persons are extensively and obsessively built in multiple layers as though the development of the painting coincides with the evolving character of each work, bearing subtle signs of life in an otherwise dismal environment.
Scott Everingham graduated from NSCAD University in Halifax in 2003 and has exhibited paintings both nationally, and internationally. He was recently awarded an Ontario Arts Council Grant, invited to the 2003 and 2005 Florence Bienalles, and will be included in a painting and drawing group show exhibiting in Los Angeles, San Jose, New York, Toronto, and the UK for early 2007. Everingham now lives and works in Toronto.
Everingham gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council.
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