Exhibitions

SCOTT EAKIN: THE ORDER OF THINGS

The Rymer Gallery / 233 5th Ave. N. May 3, 2017 - May 31, 2017

Scott Eakin

Artist Statement:
I come from a family of farmers, builders, mechanics, sewers, knitters, and musicians. We are deeply grounded in the material world. It is my nature to attempt to understand the order of things, and how to put them to use.”

This work echoes other activities that have been part of Eakin’s life at one time or another: the orderly work of plowing or mowing a field, the work of understanding and repairing a machine or improvising a melody over a chord progression.

The pictorial elements are reduced to color and simple geometric shapes. Composition is based on the grid, but he lets the rigid order slip and get loose. Individual components are simple, yet the accumulation of bits creates a complex image. Eakin’s process has something in common with collage and with nature, where simple components, cells, crystals, and other elemental forms create fantastically complex organisms and biosystems. For him these paintings are a quotation of the complexity and beauty found in the material world.