Space is the Place
by Scott Tulay
April 1st – May 1st, 2016
Gurari Collections is pleased to present an exhibition entitled SPACE IS THE PLACE, by the artist Scott Tulay. Space, whether in motion, or as a fixed point, energizes Scott Tulay’s drawing explorations. Formulating his point of view from that of an architect, and influenced by his degree in art history, Tulay breaks with convention in his spatially defined art. He is an artist-architect who, by day, has to apply rigorous standards in the built world, then, conversely, he creates imagined otherworldly works of art.
The compositional use of perspective, light-on-surface, and spatial layering, all enhance the sensation of accelerated spatial motion that is found in Tulay's work. This is a painter's knowledge, as it is the architect's, whose skillful use of these tools are integral to creating perception in the built world. Principally using the palette of black, white and gray, he draws and paints atmospheric compositions that offer uncertain contextual references. This unpredictability generates an animation between the viewer and his drawings.
Scott Tulay's creative intersections are his canvases. There is an abandoned freedom to his drawings that envigorates his art. He works perception by the blurring of the real and imagined combined.
