DUCESTUDIO
DUCESTUDIO
Scott Duce is an international artist working in New York and Montana. Duce’s work is included in many corporate, museum, and private collections. Notable collections include Random House, General Electric, IBM, Pfizer, Inc., Capital Holding Corporation, McGraw-Hill Corporation, Petroplus Holdings, Switzerland, Seagrams-Montreal, Canada, and the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden. Among his awards and honors he has received a National Endowment for the Arts/SECCA artist grant.
Duce's work has been exhibited throughout the United States, with several solo exhibitions in New York City, Boston, Chicago, and Atlanta; internationally in Paris, France; Florence, Italy; and Lima, Peru. Duce has been included in many group and curated exhibitions and he has had many commissioned works both private and public, including Bell South, Atlanta, Embassy Suites Hotels, and the Knoxville Museum of Art.
Duce is continually producing paintings, drawings, photographs and animated films for an active exhibition schedule. He is in production on several new hand-drawn animation films; including an animated short film on dyslexia titled Arival/Departure and a new film titled Row which focuses on isolation and pareidola. He recently released the short film Castletown incorporating animation and still photography techniques based on a former minning town in Montana.
Duce has published a book of drawings titled Wild Traces: Drawings from Brush Creek Ranch based on a month long artist residency in Wyoming and is working on a new book of photographs tittled Calle de Transcripcion based on his time in Chiapas, Mexico.
Duce continues work as a visual film/animation advisor as well as creating animations, digital designs, storyboards, illustrations, and concept art for film and animation projects.
In addition to his studio work he is currently a professor at Sarah Lawrence College teaching in the Film and Moving Image Arts department where he conducts course in animation, concept art, character design, and storyboarding.
ARTIST STATEMENT
As Henry David Thoreau succinctly put it, “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see”. I have spent my life painting and drawing in order to understand what I see and seeing to understand what I make. My work is based on observation combined with a desire to visually interpret nature, landscape, and culture.
I am continually moving between producing paintings, drawings, prints, and animations. For me observation comes first, whether I am on a city street or in the mountains I am always looking for what catches my eye, what excites me visually, what surprises me by humor, beauty, or conflict. I then take what I have witnessed and reinterpret this imagery through form, light, color, and meaning. For me the medium guides my process as much as anything. The texture of paint or a piece of paper influences the marks I make by hand and guides the content of my work. I tend to work in series which allows me to explore an idea in all of its permutations. Each series begins with a visual idea and proceeds through repetition, exploration, evaluation, and finally acceptance of a conclusion I have worked out for the image. My hope is that the work allows the viewer to engage with the observations I have noted and the interpretation I have strived to express. I desire to create unique images that transcend representation and move toward a deeper insight into not only my own aesthetic but the universal meanings of imagery.
SCOTT DUCE
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Boston University, emphasis in painting and drawing, 1983
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Utah, cum laude, 1981
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
Phyllis Weil, New York, New York (seven solo exhibitions)
Fashion Center Space for Public Art, New York City
Project 3W57, New York City (window installation)
Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, Nantucket, and New York (six solo exhibitions)
Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia (three solo exhibitions)
Larsen Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Marie Park Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas
Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, Tennessee (ten solo exhibitions)
Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (two solo exhibitions)
Arden Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts (three solo exhibitions)
Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee (two solo exhibitions)
Christa Faut Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina (three solo exhibitions)
GSI Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Albany Museum of Art, Albany, Georgia
Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
L and B Viewing Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Museum of Arts & Sciences, Macon, Georgia (two solo exhibitions)
Museum Works, Aspen, Colorado
Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, North Carolina
Rutgers Barclay Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Marita Gilliam, Raleigh, North Carolina
Solo International Exhibitions
Galerie Got, Paris, France
Instituto Cultural Peruano Norte Americano, Lima, Peru
Gallery Got, Barbizon, France
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
Project 3W57, New York, New York
Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, New York
450 Broadway Gallery, “Blue”, New York, New York
Phyllis Weil & Company, New York, New York
Medialia Gallery, New York, New York
Cavalier Galleries, New York, New York
Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
Larsen Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Addison Ripley Gallery, Washington DC
Art Horizons, Two-Person Exhibition, New York, New York
Centennial Olympics, Olympic Village, Atlanta, Georgia
Brenda Kroos Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Lizan Tops, East Hampton, New York
Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
Larry Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Reynolds Fine Art, “Vista: Study of the Land”, New Haven, Connecticut
Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, Tennessee
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, “A Sense of Place”, Montgomery, Alabama
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
SSC&B Lintas Worldwide, “Beauties/Beasties”, New York, New York
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Georgia
International Group Exhibitions
Edi Grafica Stamperia e Galeria, Firenze, Italy
Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea, Firenze, Italy
FIAC, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Galerie Got, Paris, France
Vancouver International Art Fair - Art 98, British Columbia, Canada
Collections (Selected)
Aluminum Company of America
American Telephone & Telegraph
American Life Insurance Company
BellSouth
Bellarmine College Library
Brooklyn Hilton Hotel
Caesar Pelli Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio
Deloitte-Touche
Eastman Pharmaceuticals
EdiGraficia, Firenze, Italy
General Electric
Hospital Corporation of America
Hunter Museum of Art
Hyatt Hotels
IBM Corporation
Instituto Cultural Peruano, Norte Americano, Lima, Peru
Kemper Group
King and Spalding, Atlanta, Georgia
Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences
MBNA American Bank
McGraw Hill Corporation, New York, New York
McDonalds Corporation, Illinois
NACCO, Inc.
Pepsico
Petroplus Holdings AG, Zug, Switzerland
Prudential Insurance Company of America
Reading Museum of Art, Reading, Pennsylvania
Seagrams, Montreal, Canada
Shearson-Lehman
Sherwin Williams
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Florn, New York, New York
State of Georgia
Sterling Winthrop, Inc.
Suffolk County Law School, Boston, Massachusetts
Telecom USA
University of Texas at El Paso
U.S. Embassy, Stockholm, Sweden
Grants
National Endowment for the Arts/SECCA
Artist Residencies
Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Brush Creek Ranch, Wyoming
Edi Grafica Stamperia, Frienze, Italy
Animated Short Films (recent)
Arrival / Departure, animated short on how one’s brain sees with dyslexia, 6.5 min. animation,
release date: August 2020
Best Short Animation, Shawna Shea Film Festival, 2021
Honorable Mention, Golden Flower International Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan, 2021
Semi-Finalist, New York Animation Film Awards, New York, 2021
SENE, Music, Art and Film Festival, 202
Flathead Lake International Cinemafest, Nominated Best Animation 2021
Durango International Film Festival. 2021
Castletown, animated short, 6.5 min. hand drawn animation and photo stills, released: May 2016
SENE film festival, 2017
Enthographic Film Festival, Paris, France 2021
Bird Story Trilogy, Three short hand-drawn animations
Rufus: The Guardian
Pelican Drop
Story of the White Sparrow
Sap Flow: the Doppler Effect, Hand-drawn animation
Books
A Walk in Winter, Photoessay Scott Duce, Fall 2021
Photographs during a four month period on the same road with observations of land and sky.
Wild Traces: Drawings from Brush Creek, Scott Duce, published September 2014,
DuceStudio Productions, 40p. Hardcover, ISBN # 978-0-692-27579-5
The Augury Drawing Series: symbols as language as meaning, e-book,
In Public 2004 -2016, complete catalog of the In Public Painting Series,
Reviews and Publications (selected)
Catalogue, Vista: A Study of the Land, Reynolds Fine Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 2013
American Art Collector, “Reconstructing the Landscape, Group Exhibition at
Cavalier Galleries”, April 2010
Catalogue Essay, “Beyond the Tree Line”, by Philip Eliasoph, Cavalier Galleries, 2008
American Art Collector, Feature Article, Scott Duce, April 2008
Plum TV, Live Interview, “Art News-Scott Duce Exhibition at Cavalier Galleries”, July 2006
American Art Collector,Feature Article, May 2006
New York One Television, interview “Business of Art - Scott Duce at Phyllis Weil Gallery”,
December ,2004
Catalogue, “Conversation with Scott Duce”, Phyllis Weil Gallery, New York, 2004
Catalogue, Scott Duce - Paintings, Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, Connecticut, 2004
Auction Catalogue, Artrageous, Edwin Gould Services, New York, New York, May 2003
Southern Accents, “Art-Framed Art -Contemporary painters have begun to play with and
redefine the concept of boundaries, borders, and frames”, by Gussie Fauntleroy,
October 2002
Catalogue, Scott Duce: Azulejos Panel Paintings, Phyllis Weil Gallery, 2000
Catalogue Essay, Scott Duce-Poet of Landscapes, by Robert Metzger,
Galerie Got, Paris, France, 1998
Catalogue, Scott Duce-Oil Paintings, Arden Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, 1998
Catalogue Essay, Scott Duce: Passeggiata, by Suzanne Harper, Museum of Arts and
Sciences, Macon, Georgia, 1997
Chicago Tribune, Art, Gallery Watch, Scott Duce Envision Prague, by Barbara Buchholz,
November 22, 1996
American Artist, Instilling a Sense of Mystery in Painting: Scott Duce, by Stephen
Doherty, December 1994
Art Papers, Review/Scott Duce at Bennett Galleries, by Dorothy Joiner,September, 1993
Catalogue Essay, Scott Duce New Paintings, by Margaret Mathews-Berenson,
Phyllis Weil Gallery, New York, 1993
Catalogue Essay, Scott Duce: The Humanist Landscape and the Landscape of the Human,
by Dorothy Joiner, Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1992
Southern Accents, A Wanderer’s Landscape, by Steven Litt, October 1991
Art Papers, Review/Scott Duce: The Black Drawings, by Dorothy Joiner, Sept. 1991
Catalogue Essay, A Sense of Place-Seven Contemporary Artists, by Diane Gingold, July, 1990
Catalogue Essay, Southeast Seven 8, Southeast Seven Artist’s Exemplify Today’s
Pluralism in Art, by John Yau, 1985
Pace Magazine, Featured Artist – Scott Duce, October issue, 1985