Bill Scott, An Aquarium of Flowers, 2015, oil on canvas, 52 x 43 inches (courtesy of Hollis Taggart Gallery)
Jennifer Samet interviews painter Bill Scott whose exhibition Imagining Spring is on view at Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York through April 16, 2016.
Scott comments: "I think I paint bittersweet fictions. I don’t believe the imagery I paint exists. I am not so removed from the world that I think it is pleasant out there. I think it is close to awful. We are walking towards extinction. So, why wouldn’t I paint the Garden of Eden or something pleasurable? What am I going to gain, spiritually or emotionally, from painting something miserable? I would much rather live in a fantasy world. I want a kindness in the painting. I want there to be an emotional ease. Generally, I don’t feel that in life, so I want it to exist in the paintings."
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Hyperallergic