Scott Stulen Kool-Aid Drunk
December 11 - January 2
PRESS RELEASE works cv
Chicago Tribune | New City
ebersmoore is pleased to announce its next solo exhibition Kool-Aid Dunk
Scott Stulen’s paintings and sculptures investigate how shared cultural memory, in particular memory based on specific images, texts, and popular media, can slip into fiction or fabrication, creating a partial truth recalled as authentic memory or experience.
Stulen is fascinated in how familiar, yet isolated references can be combined to create a new experience, which is both personal, yet foreign. Stulen views his role much like a DJ, sampling fragments of pop culture, personal and collective histories and false memories and combining them into a singular work. The key is in selecting, remixing and dropping of the appropriate sequence of samples, thus leading the audience to find meaning in unexpected places. Kool-Aid Drunk is a new body of work, which speaks to issues of failure, loss, hope and anxiety through Little House on the Prairie, family vacations and Midwestern passive aggression.
Stulen received his MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2004 and has exhibited widely throughout the country. He is currently the Project Director of mnartists.org at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the director of the McKnight Artist Fellowships for Photographers, the co-founder of SELLOUT gallery, an arts writer, independent curator and DJ.
