Scott Hutchison

I was twelve when I first saw Francis Bacon's Study after Velasquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X at the Des Moines Art center. After thirty years I still see his influence on my work. My figurative work like Bacon's are often solitary and displayed in a series. Our compositions are both haunting and distorted; influenced by the progression of time and the motion of the figure. The visual representation of movement and time's effect on the human form is vital to my work. In my paintings and drawings I distort time by overlapping various moments together in one composition.

My paintings and drawings are created and conceived by combining the use of photography, animation techniques, projections, and digital manipulation to create multifaceted figures that appear to move and animate. One painting may consist of four or five different time frames. Like overlapping echoes, a figure may merge into another or become a haunting monstrous abstraction. My paintings and drawings are extensions of my animations where the viewer is presented with multiple time frames at once. In this way, my paintings and drawings illustrate the idea that the ego is in constant flux. Life is a series of ever changing events and time in its infinite step...

BFA - Drake University
MFA - George Washington University

2016
Synchronicity: Paintings by Scott Hutchison, Hillyer Arts Space, Washington DC

2014
In Sequence, Blackrock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD

2012
In Motion, Animated Self Portraits by Scott Hutchison, The Red House Art Center, Syracuse New York.

Faces, Forms & Illusions, Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain Lake New York

2008
Introspection, December, Georgetown University, Washington DC

Animate, February, Arts Club of Washington, Washington DC

2007
Animated Portraits, N.O.V.A., Sterling VA

2005
Animated, Fraser Gallery, Washington DC

Oil Painted Animations, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington VA

2003
Paintings by Scott Hutchison, Fraser Gallery, Bethesda MD

2002
Works By: Scott Hutchison, Gallaudet University, Washington DC

Scott Hutchison, Greenbelt Arts Center, Greenbelt MD

Large-Scale Drawings By: Scott Hutchison, Harmony Hall Arts Center, Fort Washington MD

2001
Spring Solo – Last Call, Paintings by Scott Hutchison, The Arlington Arts Center, Arlington VA

2000
Dreamtank, Artwork by Scott Hutchison, George Mason University, Fairfax VA

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