Big Gesture/Make a Scene

Scout Lardner-Burke's work is primarily concerned with accidents and precarity such as a bridge that may break, or a story that may be mistranslated. These concerns form a backward or inside-to-outside discussion of systems, structures, and signification or value production processes. In painting, her substrates are watered down, they slip, spill, run, and compound. They necessitate an immediate and responsive sort of working. Painting begins in one place and ends in another. This painting is made predominantly with silk paint on polysatin.