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Scott Mayberry and Scott Mansfield
Artists Scott Mansfield and Scott Mayberry showcase their visionary creative intellects at The Palace Gallery this April, 2025. This exhibition of inventive sculpture and potent imagery and sculpture is sure to twizzle your neural pathways into cheddar cheese pretzels dipped in spicy chocolate; so, bring a napkin, its going to be a tasty one! Read more about the artists below!
Scott Mayberry
Statement
"To me, buildings represent both structure and separation. They stand for the institutions we have come to see as infallible, inevitable and ubiquitous: the economy, democracy, education, social safety nets. These institutions crowd the horizon and appear immortal, until the day comes when, inevitably, cracks begin to show. This series explores the many ways that these vast collective structures have reached their natural limit and are beginning the process of decay.
Buildings also express the ways that humans create structures that were intended for safety or usefulness, but which become isolating experiences. We build something so powerful, so solid that it can withstand a hurricane or a blizzard, but then, when we retreat inside of it, we find ourselves cut off and alone. The buildings in this collection are a nod to that forced separation, but also represent the many ways that society separates us from community by wedging us into roles and rules, limiting our unfettered experience and freedom.
And truth be told, I paint buildings because they fascinate me. Old buildings, ornate buildings, industrial buildings and collapsed buildings all catch my attention and my imagination. They are objects but also evolving expressions of the human experience, the first sign that humans have arrived on the landscape, and the last to fade away."
Scott Mayberry is a mixed-media painter, assemblage sculptor and pen and ink illustrator who has shown his work nationally and regionally. He’s known for creating images that tell a story, rendered with lush surface quality and bold palettes. Mayberry received his BA and MA in Art from Central Washington University, and his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas, Austin. Scott is a lifelong resident of Ellensburg, where he lives and works with his family. His work has many times returned to the theme of crumbling, overburdened buildings in a precarious landscape.
Statement
"To me, buildings represent both structure and separation. They stand for the institutions we have come to see as infallible, inevitable and ubiquitous: the economy, democracy, education, social safety nets. These institutions crowd the horizon and appear immortal, until the day comes when, inevitably, cracks begin to show. This series explores the many ways that these vast collective structures have reached their natural limit and are beginning the process of decay.
Buildings also express the ways that humans create structures that were intended for safety or usefulness, but which become isolating experiences. We build something so powerful, so solid that it can withstand a hurricane or a blizzard, but then, when we retreat inside of it, we find ourselves cut off and alone. The buildings in this collection are a nod to that forced separation, but also represent the many ways that society separates us from community by wedging us into roles and rules, limiting our unfettered experience and freedom.
And truth be told, I paint buildings because they fascinate me. Old buildings, ornate buildings, industrial buildings and collapsed buildings all catch my attention and my imagination. They are objects but also evolving expressions of the human experience, the first sign that humans have arrived on the landscape, and the last to fade away."
Scott Mayberry is a mixed-media painter, assemblage sculptor and pen and ink illustrator who has shown his work nationally and regionally. He’s known for creating images that tell a story, rendered with lush surface quality and bold palettes. Mayberry received his BA and MA in Art from Central Washington University, and his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas, Austin. Scott is a lifelong resident of Ellensburg, where he lives and works with his family. His work has many times returned to the theme of crumbling, overburdened buildings in a precarious landscape.
Scott Mansfield
Statement
"I attempt to shift perspective and to put the un-seeable into a physical form. I manipulate objects in an attempt to make the uncanny thing. All issues discussed in my work are expressed through bodily concerns of internality/externality. I attempt to filter topics through my own vocabulary of objects. Pieces refer to topics such as masculinity, adolescence, the origins of human sentience, and the difficulties posed by language and expression. Sometimes isolated fragments of the body function as conduits of consumption or expressions of material or information. At other times, concepts find form in tool-like objects intended fo unclear purposes. In an age preoccupied with interface and luminous image, with passing senses through a binary filter, sculpture remains a powerful refuge for actual felt experience: one limited to this space, this light, this time, with this object."
Born in Portland, Oregon, Scott Mansfield grew up in several small towns in rural Oregon and Washington. He received his BA in 1989 and his MA in 1991 from Central Washington University. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1997. He taught art and design courses at the Art Institute of Seattle and now teaches Art courses for Highline College in Des Moines WA. He currently lives near Seattle in Normandy Park.
Statement
"I attempt to shift perspective and to put the un-seeable into a physical form. I manipulate objects in an attempt to make the uncanny thing. All issues discussed in my work are expressed through bodily concerns of internality/externality. I attempt to filter topics through my own vocabulary of objects. Pieces refer to topics such as masculinity, adolescence, the origins of human sentience, and the difficulties posed by language and expression. Sometimes isolated fragments of the body function as conduits of consumption or expressions of material or information. At other times, concepts find form in tool-like objects intended fo unclear purposes. In an age preoccupied with interface and luminous image, with passing senses through a binary filter, sculpture remains a powerful refuge for actual felt experience: one limited to this space, this light, this time, with this object."
Born in Portland, Oregon, Scott Mansfield grew up in several small towns in rural Oregon and Washington. He received his BA in 1989 and his MA in 1991 from Central Washington University. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1997. He taught art and design courses at the Art Institute of Seattle and now teaches Art courses for Highline College in Des Moines WA. He currently lives near Seattle in Normandy Park.
Learn more about Scott Mansfield Here: https://www.scottmansfield.net
Learn more about Scott Mayberry here: https://www.facebook.com/ScottMayberryArt/
Learn more about Scott Mayberry here: https://www.facebook.com/ScottMayberryArt/