Scott KIlgourUnique Pop Art Painting on Slate, Electric Light Bulb Downtown NYC Art Kilgour, 1992

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SCOTT KILGOUR (b. 1960): ELECTRIC LIGHT BULB
Etched slate, 1992, signed ''Scott Kilgour'', titled and dated on the reverse.
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Etched slate, 1992, signed ''Scott Kilgour'', titled and dated on the reverse.
Provenance: Camilla and Earl McGrath Collection.
Scott Kilgour is a British Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1960. Their work was featured in several exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the Elga Wimmer PCC and the Howl! Happening. Encouraged by the first curator of 20th Century Art at the Metropolitan Museum, Henry Geldzahler, to move to New York City in the early 80's, Kilgour experienced first hand the frenetic contemporary American art scene. By the end of the decade, after absorbing the eclectic New York sensibility, Scott's lines and curves had evolved due to contact with Pop Art, Minimalism, New Wave, Graffiti and modern dance. His work was further influenced by Edmund Carpenter, a prestigious anthropologist, who galvanized his interest in continuous line drawing and knotwork designs. Gallery exhibits in the ‘80s included 56 Bleecker Street Gallery, DIA Foundation and Holly Solomon Gallery.
In the 90's, Kilgour would further expand his body of knot-work designs, embarking on a decade-long study exploring the spatial relationship of continuous line drawing in Scottish Celtic Interlace.
Kilgour's linear style is grounded in Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Art Nouveau aesthetic. This exploratory culminated in a 1999 exhibition at the Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art, as part of the Glasgow UK City for Architecture & Design celebration.
Currently, Scott is working on a botanical body of work inspired while drinking a glass of rose in Provence, surrounded by a blossoming white French rose garden. Flowers are an ideal subject for Scott’s linear execution, as no two images are the same based on rosette whorl and luminous petals radiating from a single node.
Kilgour attended the Glasgow School of Art and has been featured in media outlets including Interview Magazine, New York Magazine and Elle Décor.

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2019 MM Gallery, New York, Regarding Tom & Henry - Tom Slaughter, Stephen Hannock, Robert Harms, Scott Kilgour, Ray Charles White.
2018 Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, Bloom / Wilt / Bloom - Donald Baechler, Crash, Alex Katz, Donald Sultan, Scott Kilgour, Andy Warhol.
2017 Howl Arts, Arturo Vega Project, New York. "Love Among the Ruins" - 56 Bleecker Gallery and Late 80's New York, created by Some Serious Business - Rene Richard, Elizabeth Peyton, Dondi, Stephen Sprouse, Scott Kilgour, Bruce Conner, George Condo,Taylor Mead, Vincent Gallo,Eric Goode, Julian Beck, Ruth Kligman, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mark Sink, Auste.
2014 Bleecker Street Arts Club, New York, "The 80’s Past & Present" - Crash, Ronnie Cutrone,
Michael de Feo, Scott Kilgour, Tom Slaughter
2013 Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, Massachusetts, "Remembering Henry" - Stephen Hannock, Scott Kilgour, Tom Slaughter, Ray Charles White
2011 Splashlight Studios, New York, "Garbage & Grunge" - Scott Kilgour & Marsha Owett
1995 Jaffe, Baker, Blau, Boca Raton, Florida, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, “Abstraction, Geometry, Gesture”, Milani Gallery, Marseilles, France
1994 Barney's, New York, “Red Windows”
1988 La Foret Museum, Tokyo, Japan, “American Pop Culture Today”
1987 DIA Foundation, Bridgehampton, New York, “Six Underknowns,” curated by Henry Geldzahler
The Museum of Modern Art Advisory Show at the Whitney Extension, Connecticut
1986 Michael Klein Gallery, New York, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
1984 Serpentine Gallery, London, England, Contemporary Art Society Acquisitions

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