Artists' Fellowship - 2001
Sculpture
Artist Statement:
“I’m a multidisciplinary artist whose work addresses questions that are part of the public discourse from a Maoist point of view—from the standpoint of the oppressed and the ‘have-nots.’ For examples, Historic Connections consists of: a photograph of a 1918 lynching—a black man on fire with a crowd of white onlookers; translucent photographs of black & Latino ‘urban youth’ framed by prison bars; an electric chair; motorized police batons that strike fiberglass heads; a police radio with live police reports.” *Dread Scott was also nominated this year for a Fellowship in Performance Art/Multidisciplinary Work, but chose Sculpture. Artists may apply to the Fellowships in two categories annually, but can only accept a Fellowship in one.
More about the Artist:
Dread Scott first received national attention when he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1989, his installation for audience participation, What is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag?, became the center of controversy over its use of the American flag. President Bush Sr. declared What is the Proper Way… "disgraceful" and the entire US Senate denounced this work when they passed legislation to "protect the flag."
His work has recently been exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, The Robert Miller Gallery in New York, Wesleyan University in Connecticut and in DeBeyerd Center for Contemporary Art in the Netherlands. He was also featured in the exhibit Old Glory: the American Flag in Contemporary at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art and the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona, which was profiled widely by the press. His public sculptures have been installed at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New York and in other locations. He has appeared on numerous TV shows including Oprah and The Today Show and his work has been written about in many publications. Roberta Smith, art critic for the New York Times, has described a recent work as "quite resonant." His art is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
In 1992, Dread was a fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. He has been awarded a Mid Atlantic\National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship in Photography, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, a Special Edition Fellowship at the Lower East Side Printshop and a Creative Capital Grant.
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