Jess Hurley Scott is a contemporary painter of land and seascapes. Her dimensional paintings of multiple layered, individually painted acrylic panels deal with light, illusion, and perception. Scott plays with the intricacies of the natural world, digital technology, and translucency in her work. The result is bold realism and a unique interpretation of landscape in paint and pane. Her scale ranges from near miniature scale vignettes to dramatic, sweeping seascapes.
Born in Long Island, New York, raised there and later outside of Boston, she started muraling as a teenager. Scott studied illustration at Syracuse University under Robert Dacey, Murray Tinkleman, Rodger DeMuth, and John Thompson where she received her BFA in 2000. After graduating, she lived in New York City and later Boston working as a designer for 15 years in home product ranging in materials from textiles, to metals, wood, and glass. This experience taught her how to build not only composition, but how to develop the frame and weave the canvas. At the Art Students League of New York, studying with Hugo Bastidas in 2003, she started experimenting with some of that knowledge and began painting on glass and later acrylic. Later in Boston, she further developed her technique in 2004 when she started creating the dioramic panels that they are today.
Scott has shown in various galleries and spaces throughout the east coast including New York, Boston, Nantucket, Florida, and throughout New England and has international collectors in Italy, Holland, Canada and Panama. She has twice been awarded a residency at the renowned Pouch Cove Foundation in Newfoundland, Canada and has exhibited there in 2022 and June 2024. She is a gallery artist at the South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA and the Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. She is a featured artist at the Woodward Gallery, New York, NY, James Baird Gallery, Newfoundland, Canada, Rusticator, Seal Harbor, ME, and Savage Godfrey Gallery, Norwell, MA.
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