Peter Scott is a faculty member of long standing in the Print + Paper area. His media and fields include intaglio processes (drypoint, engraving and etching techniques), photo-intaglio, monotype, collograph, relief printing (wood cut + wood engraving, relief etching), and related digital applications. He also teaches history + critical studies of print media.
Exhibitions include a show with Paul Stopforth at Gallery NAGA, Boston (February, 2009), a solo show at Gallery NAGA (2007), the Boston Athenaeum, Boston Printmakers 2005 Print Biennial, the Boston Public Library, St. Botolph Club, Southern Graphics Council 2004 Conference, Rutgers Univ., Centrum voor Grafiek Frans Masereel, Kasterlee Belgium.
Scott was the recipient of an Artist's Fellowship and Faculty Enrichment Grant for a residency at the Vermont Studio Center (2008). He has been guest artist and lecturer at Artist Proof Studio, Johannesburg, and at the Durban Institute of Technology, Durban (2005). He has also participated in residencies at the Franz Masereel Centrum, Belgium (1998), guest lecturer at the Machida Museum, Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, and at Seika University, Kyoto (1996), and artist-in-residence and curator, Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa (1995).
His work is in the collections of the Boston Public Library, the Boston Athenaeum, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the New York Public Library, The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Artist Statement
While my work has been fixed on drawing, it has often extended and/or digressed into print, photo and digital media. The process of drawing is insatiable, requiring new strategies for abstract improvisation. It also offers a level of understanding where any subject, however quirky, obscure, mundane or trite, can become unpredictably idealized. Current work has been focused on highway vistas as well as commercial architecture and landscapes of urban fringe settings.
