CONTEMPORARY
HISTORICAL
SCOTT WATERS
SCOTT WATERS
Scott Waters received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria in 1997, and his Master of Fine Arts in 2004 from York University in Toronto. Waters’ recent and ongoing work draws on his period in the Canadian Army from 1989 to 1992. Serving as an infantryman in the Third Battalion of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Bravo “B” Company, he was stationed in Wainwright, Alberta, and Victoria, British Columbia.
Scott Waters - Nothing is more frowned upon than nothing, oil on canvas, 72″x72″
[Title from Eugene Thacker’s In the Dust of This Planet]
WORKS
Lives on the line where dreams are found and lost, ink and acrylic on rag, 18"x24", 2016
(stories that vanished, like the tale of he world itself, oil and acrylic on canvas, 36"x26", 2017
So death created time to grow the things that it would kill, ink and acrylic on rag, 24"x18", 2017
What if “Horror” has less to do with a fear of death, and more to do with a fear of life Oil on canvas,14″x11″[Title from Eugene Thacker’s In The Dust of This Planet] 2016
Nothing is more frowned upon than nothing oil on canvas, 72″x72″ [Title_from Eugene Thacker’s In the Dust of This Planet] 2016
“It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life Oil_on_canvas,_24x18 [title by Theodore Roszak] 2016
Stress fractures in titanium. What kind of work you do oil on canvas, 24″x18″ [Title from Michael Mann’s Heat, source T-shirt by Ben Sears] 2016
It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress. oil and acrylic on canvas, 14”x11” [title from Lost, season 5, episode 16] 2016
Between the motion And the act Falls the shadow oil on canvas, 14″x11″ [Title from T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men] 2016
“How easy it was to disappear. Nothing to be afraid of” acrylic on paper, 9″x12″ [Title from Jonathan Lethem’s As She Climbed Across the Table] 2016
Dying is nothing. You have to know how to Disappear. Oil on canvas, 16″x12″ [Title from the late, great Jean Baudrillard] 2016
We are tragic men. Butcher’s hands, gentle souls oil and acrylic on canvas, 48″x36″ 2016
We don’t even ask for happiness, just a little less pain ink on rag, 11″x7.5″ [Title from Bukowski] In all the world there’s nothing else Than the damage we are doing to ourselves ink on rag, 11″x7.5″ (plus its digital negative) [Title from Wil Oldham’s, Dream of the Sea]
Hollows in alliance. We made a system, a universe. For a moment. ink on rag, 7.5″x11″ [Title from Jonathan Lethem’s, As she climbed across the table] It is only since God died that the destiny of the world has become our responsibility. ink on rag, 7.5″x11″ [Title from Jean Baudrillard’s, Impossible Exchange]
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EXHIBITION LIST
Scott Waters- Vanguard, oil and acrylic on canvas, 48” x 38”. 2010.
Solo Exhibitions
Represented by LE Gallery, 2008 – present
2015 How to Disappear Completely, LE Gallery, Toronto ON
2014 We All Go Down Together, LE Gallery, Toronto ON
2013 The Keeper of Nothingnness, LE Gallery, Toronto ON
2011 There Are Many Like It, But This One Is Mine, Le Gallery, Toronto ON
2010 Totems, LE Gallery, Toronto ON
2009 Trading Greens For Tans, Le Gallery, Toronto ON
Solo Exhibitions (public/artist run centre)
2014 The Keeper of Nothingness, The Vernon Public Art Gallery, Vernon BC
2013 RotoZero, YYZ Artists Outlet, Toronto ON
2010 Expressions of Force, Art Gallery of South Western Manitoba, Brandon, MB
2009 War: A Family Affair, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON (w/ Elaine Goebel)
2009 It’s Great to be a Man in Times Like These, Rodman Hall, St. Catharines ON
2007 Visiting Artist Residency Exhibition, Open Studio, Toronto ON
2005 Out of Bounds, The Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC
Public talks/lectures
2014 UAAC conference, Cultural Work in Times of Military Commemoration, Toronto ON
2014 Exhibition talk, The Vernon Public Art Gallery, Vernon BC
2011 Visiting artist lecture, Red Deer College, Red Deer AB
2011 Visiting artist lecture, Family Portraits, The Military Museums, Calgary AB
2010 Residency lecture, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Dawson, Yukon
2010 Guest Lecturer, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo ON
2009 Exhibition lecture, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina SK
Scott Waters- Dear Mom, Oil and acrylic on gessoed paper. 48” x 38”. 2010.
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Gallery Manager: Vinna Ly