8 images in the Tim Scott at the Everson Museum of Art album. Tim Scott: A Photo Gallery “Tim Scott – The Sixties: When Colour Was Sculpture” is on view at the Everson Museum of Art, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, through April 11. Photo key: 1. British sculptor Tim Scott (seated on left) with Everson Museum director Steven Kern, on Saturday, January 30, the afternoon following the exhibition’s opening reception. Tim Scott gave a gallery walk-through and then a Q&A with visitors gathered in the upstairs east gallery. Behind them is Scott’s “Bird in Arras V” (1969), painted steel tubes and acrylic sheets. Collection of Lewis P. Cabot. Photo © Darryl Hughto, used with permission. 2. “Quinquereme” (1966). Painted aluminum volumes with acrylic sheets. Collection of Audrey and David Mirvish, Toronto. Edition of two plus third in painted wood and plastic (the other two are in London). Photo © Darryl Hughto, used with permission. 3. At the gallery talk. Front, “Sestina” (1967), painted steel tubes, aluminum sheets and volumes. Back, “Bird in Arras III” (1968). Painted steel tubes and acrylic sheets. Both, collection of Audrey and David Mirvish. Photo © Darryl Hughto, used with permission. 4. In the Everson’s first floor sculpture court, “Bird in Arras VII” (1969). Painted steel tubes and acrylic sheets. Collection of Lewis P. Cabot. These monumental sculptures were refurbished and exhibited in Toronto 11/2/2008 – 4/19/2009 in a show organized by David Mirvish. Six of the seven pieces exhibited in that show are on view at the Everson now. Photo © Darryl Hughto, used with permission. 5. “Sistrum V” (1969). Aluminum. Series of six pieces. Collection of Syracuse University, gift of Diane Ackerman in 1982. Syracuse University had three of the “Sistrum” pieces on view in the east gallery at SUArts, Shaffer Art Building, for several weeks during February and early March. Photo © Darryl Hughto, used with permission. 6. This is one of a number of large forged steel sculptures, installed together outside above the coast in Maine, from the work done by Tim Scott in the 1970s and 80s, after he stopped doing the monumental painted pieces with acrylic sheets. Photo taken in January 2010, © Darryl Hughto, used with permission. 7. “House of Clay XVII” (2008). White stoneware paper clay, unglazed. One of the six pieces from this series now on view in the Cloud Wampler Gallery, on loan to the Everson Museum from the Corkin Gallery, Toronto. Scott began the House of Clay series in 2008 in Yorkshire, England, and continued work on it daily while in Toronto supervising the refurbishment of the monumental sculptures from the 1960s. Jane Corkin of the Corkin Gallery mounted an exhibition of seventeen of these pieces (X – XXVI) that also opened on 11/2/2008 and ran until 12/20/2008. Photo © a. l. Conway, used with permission courtesy of Jane Corkin. 8. “House of Clay XXVI” (2008). Red stoneware, unglazed. Photo © a. l. Conway, used with permission courtesy of Jane Corkin. To see accompanying article, go back to A&E . A shorter version of this article appears in the March 11, 2010 print edition of the Syracuse City Eagle weekly. – Nancy Keefe Rhodes
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