OREGON ARTS WATCH: NATURE AND NURTURE: STACY JO SCOTT AT HOLDING CONTEMPORARY
Installation view of Lo, A Vase in the Dark at Holding Contemporary. Photo credit: Mario Gallucci
I imagine Scott’s work in this show as a personal archeological site — her ceramic sculptures are the relics, and the archival prints are the photographs that archive these finds. However, in the case of Scott’s work they are closely intertwined. Both sculpture and prints memorialize her own personal history that is at once inherited and generated. Scott’s work seems to play with the idea of creating our own history, especially as a queer artist and what that means to their present, past and future selves, all at once. —Ashley Gifford for Oregon Arts Watch