Joyce J. Scott: PAINFUL DEATH/PAINLESS LIFE
November 15, 2008 – January 23, 2009
Reception: Saturday , November 15, 2008, 6:00 – 8:30PM
Tuesday – Friday: 10:00AM – 5:30PM
Saturday: By appointment 12:00PM – 5:00PM
www.goyacontemporary.com
Artist Bio: Scott, a Baltimore native, has spent the past 30 years using art to question the ways in which people use race to define themselves and others. A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, Scott has worked in many media, from beaded sculpture to prints.
Scott’s work has appeared in more than 60 solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the American Craft Museum, New York, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the Orlando Art Museum, Florida and the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. as well as others. She has been awarded honors from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Maryland State Arts Council, and Anonymous was a Woman.
