A Scott Redden Comes to Pittsburgh

We are so excited to announce that we have an original Scott Redden oil painting at the showroom available for purchase (Yellow Truck II, 1999, oil on canvas, 60" x 64"). It is currently hanging in our showroom window at 324 S Highland Avenue for your viewing pleasure. Below, you will find Scott Redden's biography courtesy of Dillon Gallery located in Chelsea.

Scott Redden combines motifs of rolling pastures, voluminous clouds, verdant trees and homestead architecture, creating nostalgic paintings evocative of an earlier, simpler rural reality. Yet beneath the bucolic surface of the landscape settings exists an urban undertow (he has created the most of his paintings in New York City) that flavors the imagery. Distinguished by lone or cropped placement, the isolation and confinement of these forms contrast poignantly with the implied atmosphere of warmth and connectedness in his chosen subject. He effectively juxtaposes complimentary characteristics: past with present, cheer with melancholy, interconnectedness with disconnection, clarity with mystery. Redden’s paintings are conceived from minimal yet mindful sketches culled from photographic fragments, memories, and imagination, so that the inspiration of his pictorial imagery straddles truth and invention. Once his composition is established, the drawing is transferred to canvas by hand in sections at a time over a period of days or weeks. This tactical process ensures that each individual element receives the same attentive care as the overall composition, and enhances the forms with perfect puzzle-like correspondence with each other.
In Addition, Stacy Smith of the Zimmerli Museum states:

Redden's work is as much an exploration of the nature of painting as of natural environment and notions of place. Distinctive for unabashed and often inventive color, multiple points of interest, flat planes, and modified traditional imagery, Redden’s work engenders natural associations with folk painting. However, while it shares visual qualities with naïve art, it is in fact quite sophisticated. Exploring the way objects relate to each other abstractly, Redden expands on its representation in unique and imaginative ways. Mixing formal geometry with gestural brushstrokes, variations of scale and configuration with motif repetition, and simplified modeling with detail, he activates his personal iconography instilling the pictorial imagery with an atmosphere of stasis.