Scott Short

Whitney Museum of American Art — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:48:50 -0400

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Scott Short’s evocative compositions explore the limits and possibilities of painting. In works such as Untitled (white), Short considers the concepts of authorship and reproduction. He begins by photocopying a blank piece of colored construction paper onto a blank piece of standard copy paper—a method that results in seemingly random black-and-white patterns printed on the copy paper. He then copies that copy, repeating the process multiple times and continuing the random patterning process. Once the artist selects a final permutation, the abstract image is then photographed, formatted as a slide, and projected onto a primed canvas. In the final stage, Short painstakingly recreates this image, taking care to remain true to the particular patterns and shapes generated by the machine. In Short’s process, the painter and the photocopier undergo a role reversal: the copier creates the abstraction and the painter reproduces the copy. By removing the emotive quality of the artist and leaving the authorship to a machine, Short reinvents traditional painterly practice.

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Whitney Museum of American Art — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:22:36 -0400

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The photograph rescued me from subjectivity.
Gerhard Richter

The subject has not succeeded in negating himself as subject
Jean Baudrillard from The Hell of the Same

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