SCOTT INGRAM
BIOGRAPHY
Artist Scott Ingram’s practice includes painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, and installation. A devoted student of 20th century Modernism, Ingram often uses manufactured materials and the formal visual language of abstraction to create his work. However, rather than the house paint, steel, glass, and reinforced concrete typical of mid-century art and design, the artist instead employs and emulates media closely associated with our current material culture. Simulated sheetrock paintings, nail polish line drawings, concrete blocks made of foam, and actual houses pierced by wooden I-beams satirically elevate the trappings of contemporary commercialism to the place of Modernist art and architecture. Delighting and challenging our eye at once, Ingram’s playfully disrupted geometric compositions provide a comic critique of the structures that define urban life and landscape today.
The Iowa native moved to Atlanta in 1995 as the city’s cultural scene exploded in the run-up to the 1996 Summer Olympics. His observations of the new urban model springing up here during the past decade nurtured his interest in the sociology and aesthetics of the built environment, providing the platform of his current artistic practice.
Ingram was born in Drumright, Oklahoma and grew up in Des Moines, Iowa. Since 1995, he has exhibited throughout North America and Europe. His work is included in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia as well as the private collections of Sara and John Shlesinger, Suzanne Kasler, Nancy Soloman, Sue and John Wieland, Dr. Sanjay and Rebecca Gupta, Stuart Horodner, Jonathon Shils, and Bill Stewart, and Sue and John Wieland.
