Never the Same Moment
“Growing up in Shreveport is at the very root of my artistic nature, which I would describe as primarily romantic.” - Willaim Scarlato
William Scarlato
OCTOBER 27, 2017 - JANUARY 14, 2018
This retrospective highlights Scarlato’s diverse artistic interests, mediums, and influences. The exhibition includes rural and urban landscape paintings, primarily of the Midwest and New England, that seek to express “Americanness” as a sense of place by evoking the character and stories of the people who live there. The still life paintings include trompe l’oeil realism and Modernist abstraction with symbolic expression as a common feature. The intaglio and lithographic prints explore Scarlato’s conceptual and mimetic nature.
Scarlato wrote of his work, “The prints and abstract drawings are a fuller representation of my conceptual self, which also shows up in my paintings. I allow for this open-endedness because it’s my natural turn of mind; it is also because I teach abstraction to my students. Abstraction can be taught as effectively as the mimetic tradition of realism.”
