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Michael Scott
Systems of Clarity
Optical system as structure
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Optical system as structure
Michael Scott

Michael Scott

my-kul skott

Michael Scott builds a world where visual experience is produced through system.
Repeated units are organized by calculation and constraint rather than composition.
Difference registers through optical instability held within serial control.

Repetition under boundary pressure holds as structure.

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1. Michael Scott in the studio. © Michael Scott
2. Installation view, Mission West Gallery. © Michael Scott
3. Untitled (Circle #4), 1986. Acrylic on canvas, 30 × 30 in. © Michael Scott
4. Exhibition view, Michael Scott, Galerie Xippas, Geneva, 2018. © Annik Wetter
5. Untitled (L24), 1991. Enamel on wood, 96 × 48 in. © Michael Scott
6. Michael Scott in the studio. © Michael Scott
7. Michael Scott in the studio. © Michael Scott
8. Installation view, Michael Scott: Circle Paintings, Xippas Paris. Photo: Frédéric Lanternier. Courtesy the artist and Xippas.
9. Installation view, Michael Scott: Off-Ramp, Jacob Bjorn Gallery.
10. Installation view, Michael Scott: Off-Ramp, Jacob Bjorn Gallery.
11. Installation view, Michael Scott: Off-Ramp, Jacob Bjorn Gallery.
12. Installation view, Michael Scott: Off-Ramp, Jacob Bjorn Gallery.
13. Installation view, Michael Scott: Circle Paintings, Xippas Paris. Photo: Frédéric Lanternier. Courtesy the artist and Xippas.
14. Installation view, Michael Scott: Circle Paintings, Xippas Paris. Photo: Frédéric Lanternier. Courtesy the artist and Xippas.
15. Installation view, Michael Scott: Black and White Line Paintings, 1989–2011. © 2014 Sandra Gering Inc.
16. Michael Scott in the studio. © Michael Scott
17. Installation view, Michael Scott: New Paintings, Tony Shafrazi Gallery.

Cover: Michael Scott: New Paintings, Tony Shafrazi Gallery
Portrait: Michael Scott. © Michael Scott

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Structual Relations
The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.