About

I LOVE PROCESS!

Immersing myself in the investigation of media is, for me, both practice and artifact. After 40 years in the studio I still find myself creating what my inner-most mind desires. Feeding and exploring that mind is an absolute. We all create the setting in which our minds live. Thus it seems important to me to be receptive, sensitive, to the conditions around me. At times this results in responsive contemplation characterized by quiet solitude, while at other times it is an unpredictable, energized, and frenetic space. My work explores and reflects the nuances of this dichotomy.

Conceptually the work is a bridge between figuration and abstraction. This is how my mind works, taking delight in the synthesis and contradiction of this paradox. You should see or feel things that resonate with you, intimate juxtapositions that may evoke enigma. Thus each image invites a journey assisting us in placing one foot in front of the other as we attempt to navigate and make sense of this chaotic, mysterious world in which we live.

BIO

Scot E. Bennett (Canadian, b. 1958) is a printmaker, mixed media artist, and educator who makes his home in the Rochester, NY area. He has been teaching visual art for nearly 40 years chairing departments and designing programs and curriculum for half of that time. Bennett’s degrees include an M.F.A. is from Rochester Institute of Technology and a B.S. in art from Roberts Wesleyan College.

Bennett lectures, critiques, and instructs in workshops throughout the region specializing in process-oriented mixed-media techniques including collage, monotype, lithography (graphite), photo-transfer processes, and drawing with graphite. 

His work is a synthesis of representational and non-representational formalist-expressionist imagery within contemplative narrative; this, he suggests, stems from his work with Lawrence (Judd) Williams while at R.I.T. and combining a reverence for sacred and contemplative space which is encountered in many travels, solo canoe voyages, and walking pilgrimages.

VITA

PHILOSOPHY OF TEACHING

STUDENT WORK