Charles Lavel

Charles LaVell Scott is an American multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves across painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, architecture and experimental forms of making. His work investigates perception, identity, consciousness, revelation and the systems through which human beings construct meaning and assign value.

Scott approaches creation as an act of discovery rather than execution. He frequently begins without a predetermined image or prescribed destination, allowing material, gesture, intuition and observation to determine the emerging work. Rather than imposing an identity upon an object from the outset, he allows that identity to reveal itself through the process of making.

This approach has developed into a broader philosophical inquiry throughout his practice: What exists before we recognize it? What changes when perception changes? What remains when constructed meanings are removed?

These questions appear differently across Scott’s bodies of work. The Unmasking of Entropy considers revelation through deterioration, exposure and the stripping away of constructed identity. His developing fifteen-work series, The Discovery of Gold, approaches revelation from another direction, examining the possibility that wha...

Master of Business Administration, Master of Architecture

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