Scott Hadfield
Painter Scott Hadfield’s large scale canvases are built up with brushed and scraped paint punctuated by precise lines recalling numerals. A meditation on time, the rugged coatings provide glimpses of each step of the artwork’s fabrication while the contrasting thin angles and curves seem to have remained a constant throughout the tumultuous process. This reverse archeology allows for chance conversations among the individual layers which sit flattened together on the surface. Hadfield equally recognizes the role that continuity plays over time–some lines more obscured than others. His 5455 series nods to the influence of NeoDada artist Jasper Johns’ American Flag paintings, titled with the dates of their production (1954-55). Extending his predecessor’s use of flags and numbers as familiar and readymade subjects, Hadfield too is able to focus on the qualities of the paint itself–color, texture, and relationships–since an identical composition is repeated for every painting of the series.
Scott Hadfield’s work has been shown at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Center for the Arts, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, and Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. He is a recipient of the Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant.
Painter Scott Hadfield’s large scale canvases are built up with brushed and scraped paint punctuated by precise lines recalling numerals. A meditation on time, the rugged coatings provide glimpses of each step of the artwork’s fabrication while the contrasting thin angles and curves seem to have remained a constant throughout the tumultuous process. This reverse archeology allows for chance conversations among the individual layers which sit flattened together on the surface. Hadfield equally recognizes the role that continuity plays over time–some lines more obscured than others. His 5455 series nods to the influence of NeoDada artist Jasper Johns’ American Flag paintings, titled with the dates of their production (1954-55). Extending his predecessor’s use of flags and numbers as familiar and readymade subjects, Hadfield too is able to focus on the qualities of the paint itself–color, texture, and relationships–since an identical composition is repeated for every painting of the series.
Scott Hadfield’s work has been shown at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Center for the Arts, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, and Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. He is a recipient of the Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant.
