Bio

The light-infused work by Scout Cuomo explores the intersection of the human and natural world. As an impressionistic and abstract impressionistic full-time working artist, Scout works predominately in the mediums of painting and drawing. She is best known for her “Swimmers” series, which portrays people floating in and exploring life underwater. She calls on a traditional and labor-intensive resin layering process, layering pigment with epoxy to infuse each layer of a painting with light. Other subjects range from landscapes to animals painted on glass. An artist industriously producing new work, she’s been a full-time artist for 10 years and has sold over 600 paintings nationally and internationally. A native of Texas, she moved to the Northeast over ten years ago to seriously pursue her art. She’s a graduate of Smith College and has also worked as a tattoo apprentice, barista and in boat refinishing in Provincetown, MA— experiences that inform her work today. She lives and works in Greenfield, MA.

Statement

Water has been a metaphor for thousands of years throughout our collective human history. As a physical force, it contains the vast unknown, is a destroyer of worlds and supports all living things. As a metaphor, it speaks to multiple aspects of creation, sanctuary, and spiritual transformation. Beneath the water’s skin, the laws of gravity are suspended, rendering the human body weightless and breathless. In this show, figures are consumed in a sea of saturated pigments — expansive underwater caverns and bursting waves to push them to the edge of their vulnerability. It is here, in this weightless, vulnerable state, where we are presented with a choice: recede or expand.