SCOTT GLEESON
SCOTT GLEESON is an emerging Texas artist specializing in paintings and installations about our culture's most pressing and socially relevant issues. A former Meadows Artistic Merit Scholar at Southern Methodist University’s graduate Department of Art History, Scott began his practice as an historian of the avant-garde before pursuing his own public art and studio projects. In 2012, he was awarded a grant from The Idea Fund, a regional re-granting initiative of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, to support an archive project with migrant day laborers, Las Manos Negras, which was the subject of a solo exhibition at Eastfield College and several public interventions and lectures. In June 2013, with partial support by The Idea Fund, the artist began researching links between military combat psychotaumatology, visual phenomenology, and abstraction. This research led to a new series of graphic works, the EMDR Visual Aids, which advocates a renewed association between the visual arts and social contexts once characteristic of the avant-garde in the early 20th Century. Works from this series will be presented in a solo installation at the Mildred Hawn Gallery at the Meadows School of the Arts in the spring of 2016. Paintings from the series were selected to represent the Western US in the 2015 issue of New American Paintings, No 120. Also in 2016, the artist initiated the Road Warrior Project, a public art photo sharing project for combat veterans, raising awareness about documented links between war, PTSD, suicide, machine culture, and motor vehicle-related deaths since the Vietnam Era.
SCOTT GLEESON is the CEO and Executive Director of Peripheral Vision Arts and the Peripheral Vision Gallery.
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