Scott Everingham

Scott Everingham is a Canadian painter whose work is about impermanence in habitations and in life: paintings that deconstruct environments and examine how paint can act as the architecture to build spaces. He says “I'm interested in the duality of a transitory environment that can, at once, speak about familiarity and discovery, and the amorphous and concrete. In these works, forms and constructs challenge notions of cognizance: where objects hold multiple and often paradoxical meanings. Walls can also act as windows, or strong wooden supports as delicate tree limbs. Additionally, each work presents its own set of physics that mimic or challenge gravity, weight, and inertia.”

He says “As fictional paintings (a literary term, but one that I find suitable for describing narrative abstraction), paint is explored not simply through gestural marks, but by the consideration of space, and with the structures alluding to a detachment of place and time. These environments are deliberately painted to feel ungrounded, insecure, and transient.”

His work is included in many private and corporate collections and he has exhibited widely.

Scott holds a BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax, and an MFA from the University of Waterloo. He is a 3-time RBC Canadian Painting Competition Finalist with exhibitions at The Power Plant (Toronto), the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa) and Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Jon Imber Painting Award from the Vermont Studio Centre, Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council. Everingham’s work has been reviewed in The Toronto Star, Canadian Art Magazine, The Globe and Mail,The Magenta Foundation, Juxtapoz Magazine, The National Post, Studio Beat, and NOW Magazine.

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