Scott Patt Opening Tonight @ Corduroy Surf Gallery

Posted on April 2, 2010
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My good friend Scott Patt has an opening tonight in Portland Maine @ the Corduroy Surf Gallery. I have seen his work transform and grow of the years I have know him and I believe this is his best work yet. If you can stop by and check it out. You’ll be glad you did. Heres some info on the show.

“GOOD LUCK”
AN EXHIBITION of COASTAL WELL WISHES
FOR A MORE PROMISING TOMORROW

by SCOTT PATT

Corduroy
(Mezzanine Gallery)
Portland, Maine
Opening Reception: Friday, April 2nd, 6 – 9pm

Please join Scott Patt for an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures at the Corduroy Gallery and Boutique in Portland, Maine – Friday April 2nd from 6pm – 9pm. This exhibition will run from April 2nd – April 30th, 2010.

“Good Luck” is a collection of new works by Scott Patt that explores self-determination within the physical and spiritual characteristics of luck and it’s relationship to ideologies in contemporary culture.

Luck has long been used to justify fortunes both good and bad, explain the unexplainable, accept that which is unchangeable and rationalize what is deserved. “Good Luck” the exhibition imagines a life relegated to nothing but chance: the uncontrollable, relentless and unbiased eye of fate as the decider. It is a modern shrine to hope, congregated by personalized objects of reverence, symbol and satire.

“Good luck” reflects deeply on Scott’s early life in Pennsylvania. Traditional Pennsylvania German Hex signs used to ward off evil and bring good luck are hybridized in new paintings and sculptures with his own symbology in adoration of surfing, it’s culture and the eastern shores. As well, common items from his Pennsylvania youth like cutting boards and paddles have been re-appropriated as canvases and further steeped in meaning carrying the message of good luck as it relates to religious, sexual and political imagery. Scott further explores the connotations of luck and it’s relationship to fate and sacrifice through his lucky rabbit’s foot sculpture series.

Scott Patt is an artist whose work is informed by the big pitch, by the aesthetics of communication and its multivalent layers in our physical environments – urban and rural. Inspired by the art of the Pennsylvania Dutch and post pop consumerism with its primary colors and promises of a healthier tomorrow, he was born in Allentown PA at the confluence of past greats – steel town and country idyll. His paintings and installations have been shown around the world—from Japan, Amsterdam to Portland and New York in spaces ranging from alternative storefronts to museums. He’s been shown at PICA and the Portland Museum of Art as well as galleries like McCaig-Welles, Motel, Cedar Crest College and Compound. He’s been a body builder, missionary, surfer, strip club sketch artist and creative director at some of those companies making those pitches and promises.

For more information please contact:

Tyler Briggs
http://www.corduroyboutique.com

corduroy
59 market street
portland, maine 04101
207.347.3545