Untitled
Brooklyn Museum photograph, Benjamin Blackwell, photographer
Object Label
Judith Scott began making art at age 46, producing idiosyncratic sculptural assemblages in a career spanning seventeen years. From 1989 until her death in 2005, Scott worked at Creative Growth, a studio-based program in Oakland, California, founded to support artists with developmental disabilities. Fastidiously weaving, bundling, and wrapping fiber, found objects, and other unconventional materials, she often worked for weeks or months on a single piece.
Scott’s life experience as an artist with Down syndrome who was largely deaf and spoke little highlights the limitations of the conventional art-historical canon. Moving beyond the term “outsider artist,” critics and curators have recently contextualized her objects within mainstream art history, telling a richer, more complex story about how artistic gifts can be nurtured and compelling works of art can be made by artists reflecting a broader range of cognitive diversity than has been historically recognized.
Caption
Judith Scott American, 1943–2005. Untitled, 1994. Fiber and found objects, 27 x 23 x 17 in. (68.6 x 58.4 x 43.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Florence B. and Carl L. Selden Fund, 2015.30. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, Benjamin Blackwell, photographer, 2015.30_Benjamin_Blackwell_photograph.jpg)
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Gallery
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Artist
Title
Untitled
Date
1994
Medium
Fiber and found objects
Classification
Dimensions
27 x 23 x 17 in. (68.6 x 58.4 x 43.2 cm)
Credit Line
Florence B. and Carl L. Selden Fund
Accession Number
2015.30
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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Frequent Art Questions
What is this made of?
This is made of paper towels, yarn, cardboard, wire, electric coil, and other objects that the artist found and incorporated into this sculpture.Judith Scott would often begin with a single object that she had found, and then build layers and layers of other objects on it.For this work, you can see that she has chosen a white color palette, but her other sculpture might be red, orange, or a mix of many colors.Wow! Ok thank you.
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