Scott received a Masters of Fine Art in Ceramics at Ohio State University in 1989. His sculpture has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationwide. He was a prototype designer for Bath and Body Works and White Barn Candle Company for 7 years, and has been working with clay for over 25 years. ""My recent sculpture takes inspiration from various forms of jewelry such as rings, brooches, and pendants. I am "The concepts of attraction, desire and obsession are paramount in my work. As much as its jewelry-like qualities are meant to reflect emotions such as greed, sexuality is referred to in various abstractions of body parts, referring to corporeal longing and lust. These sexual parts are displayed like jewels, as rare and precious objects of desire. My pieces emphasize the tension between the attractive beauty of an object and the corruptive power of lustful obsession with that object. The bulbous, organic forms of my work evoke a memory of the material’s history—a record of its past condition of malleability and plasticity. Recollection of the object’s former state is also apparent in the shiny, reflective surfaces, bringing to mind the fluidity of liquid metal. These aspects of my work, combined with the bubbly look of the glazes (which recalls the fact that at one time these materials were supremely hot) impart a plea for a particularly sensual response, calling to mind the beginning of things—the primitive, the wet, and the molten. Color plays a part in this fascination with the primordial, especially in combination with the texture imparted by my glazing technique. I place the green of mildew, molds, and mosses next to the fiery, lava-like blush of orange and red. My work expresses an enthrallment with the primitive: desire and instinct, the attraction and need for the sensual and the physical, our connection with the elemental." My recent sculpture takes inspiration from various forms of jewelry such as rings, brooches, and pendants. I am intrigued by jewelry’s common inclusion of two separate materials—stone and metal. My work plays with that c Born 1962, Moundsville, West Virginia, Lives in Birmingham, Alabama, attended Glenville State College, West Virginia 1980-81, West Liberty State College, BS 1984, Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky, MA Ceramics 1986, and The Ohio State University, Ohio, MFA Ceramics 1989 Selected Exhibitions 2007 Scott Bennett: Sculpture, Burke Gallery, Denison University, Granville, OH 2009 500 Ceramic Sculptures, Lark Books 2007 Image Transfers on Clay, Lark Books
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Red Dot Gallery • 1001 Stuart Street • Birmingham, Alabama 35209 • Telephone (205) 870-7608
Gallery Owners: Dori DeCamillis and Scott Bennett. All images copyright Red Dot Gallery © 2005. |