These works have been recognized through awards and museum exhibitions. Structural Omission defines the organizing logic of this body of work, even when it does not present itself through overt visual disruption. Across these paintings, perceptual limits and incomplete narratives are engaged through different degrees of visibility and restraint.

Girl in a pale dress stands barefoot on a rocky edge, arms extended for balance, red hair in braids. Blue backdrop disrupted with structural omissions, signature of Deborah Scott’s Structural Omission framework. Deborah Scott Art.
Painting of a figure of a woman in a white dress standing on a path with birds above, framed through omissions revealing the limits of perception and narrative closure. By Deborah Scott, part of her Structural Omission framework. Deborah Scott Art.
Painting of a portrait of a girl reflected in a mirror, framed through omissions revealing the limits of perception and narrative closure. By Deborah Scott, part of her Structural Omission framework in the Post-Certainty Era, exploring structural incompleteness. Deborah Scott Art.
Painting of a portrait of a young woman in a green sweatshirt resting her face on her hand, framed through omissions revealing the limits of perception and narrative closure. By Deborah Scott, part of her Structural Omission framework. Deborah Scott Art.
Painting of a portrait of a young woman seated with her arms wrapped around her knees, wearing golden high-top sneakers, framed through omissions revealing the limits of perception and narrative closure. By Deborah Scott, part of her Structural Omission framework. Deborah Scott Art.
Deborah Scott Portrait Commissions large paintings
Painting of a figure of a woman in a white dress holding a bag of sugar on a bridge, framed through omissions revealing the limits of perception and narrative closure. By Deborah Scott, part of her Structural Omission framework. Deborah Scott Art.