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  Scott Hazard

Photographic Sculptures

March 2-31

The Pilot-Article

Moore County Independent-Article

Scott Hazard- March 2-31, 2007 Rising Star in the SKY On Friday, March 2nd, SKY Art Gallery and Photo Studio will welcome an emerging Raleigh artist, Scott Hazard, with an opening reception from 6-8 p.m. Refreshments will be served and the public is invited. Scott Hazard is a mixed media artist with special emphasis on photography and sculpture. His unusual and compelling work addresses the landscape and the ways we perceive and interpret it. Of his own work, Hazard says, “My art attempts to temporarily remove the viewer's existing frame of reference … to illuminate facets and poetic understandings of our world that are unseen or unnoticed.” He goes on to say, “Because most of us are concerned with our own business, and exist in a world with a seemingly endless amount of stimulus available, we might be unable to let the details of the world reveal themselves to us at times. These details may have a poetic content of their own that we might appreciate and/or they may help us gain a better understanding of the world we live in. As Walt Whitman wrote in the preface to Leaves of Grass, 'The greatest poet dilates any thing that was before thought small…with the grandeur and life of the universe. He is a seer.' I wish to transmit a glimpse of this poetic vision to the viewer.” Scott graduated with a Master of Fine Arts with a focus on sculpture from the University of Florida. His undergraduate degree in landscape architecture prepared him for a career as a designer that complements his work creating sculpture, installations and environments. Growing up throughout California, his view of the landscape is touched by a deep appreciation for the rustic and often elusive beauty found in the arid hills, scrubby vegetation and geologic phenomena he came to know there. Now based in the Raleigh, North Carolina, his work investigates pastoral and urban landscapes at sites ranging from the Appalachian Mountains to downtown vacant lots. His vision of nature is tempered by a poetic sensibility and a constant questioning of the mental constructs that define how we see and engage with the world. Using a combination of common building materials, inherently beautiful hardwoods, video, photography and natural materials, Hazard creates objects that seek to provide the viewer with an opportunity for a different presence of mind, a distilled frame of reference. John Gessner, photographer and owner of SKY Art Gallery and Photo Studio is very pleased to showcase Hazard's work. He says, “As a photographer who has worked side by side with some the best and most innovative photographers in the world, I was extremely excited when Scott agreed to have a show here at SKY Art Gallery.  Scott's approach to photography is new and fresh. I feel we are approaching a great time of change in photography as an art form and Scott has latched onto something quite unique.” SKY Art Gallery, voted “Best Art Gallery” in the Pilot's “Best of Moore” awards, is located at 602 Magnolia Drive, at the entrance to Magnolia Square. Hours are Wednesday-Saturday from noon – 5:00 p.m. or by appointment. The new show will run through the month of March. For more information, call 910-944-9440.