Each environment Scott Everingham has created is an experiment and an encounter – one that has no visible beginning or end – but which speaks to him as very new and real. Paint is a major part of this illusion – it is both the language and structure of human form and architecture – which allows an audience to be involved in the story that is taking place.  Everingham is mainly interested in the ambiguity of how paintwork can represent living and static masses, where viewers may be involved the story at hand.

Everingham takes heavily from literary references and how a story is able to unfold by language alone.  He, too, is interested in a storytelling – albeit painted – in a way that extends beyond what is visible, and into the metaphorical, allegorical, and fictional.  Narratives live and expire as often as the materiality becomes structural or painterly. The paint often has insubstantiality, yet is grounded by moments of escape.  Windows, gaps, and breaking architecture act as exits or entries into parallel narratives that are at once hopeful and dire.
(Taken from press release)

Galerie Trois Points
space 520
Scott Everingham
Stirring Up Stagnant Time
January15th -february 12th, 2011
www.galerietroispoints.qc.ca