Artist Residencies

Time. Focus. Community. Perspective.

Each residency marks a shift in the work. I document what changed, the questions I was exploring, the paintings that emerged, and the ideas that carried forward.
Summaries and links follow.

ropped detail from Deborah Scott’s painting It Was Obvious to Her — a partially disrupted realist portrait showing a contemplative man emerging through vivid red structural omissions that interrupt and reveal the incompleteness of the scene.

Ragdale

2026 – In Progress

Lake Forest, IL

Pushing new questions in Structural Omission

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Detail It Seemed Lighter in the Beginning 2025 Figure on a tricycle is partially obscured by structural omissions of red underpainting. Painting by Deborah Scott, part of her Structural Omission framework in the Post-Certainty Era, addressing limits of perception and narrative. Deborah Scott Art.

Vermont  Studio Center

2025

Johnson,  VT

Expanding visual language + early video collaboration

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Detail Figure on a tricycle is partially obscured by structural omissions of red underpainting. Painting by Deborah Scott, part of her Structural Omission framework in the Post-Certainty Era, addressing limits of perception and narrative. Deborah Scott Art.

Byrdcliffe Arts Colony

2025

Woodstock, NY

Building the Structural Omission framework + developing four core paintings

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Painting of a figure of two people close together, one with an arm around the other, framed through omissions revealing the limits of perception and narrative closure. By Deborah Scott, part of her Structural Omission framework. Deborah Scott Art.

Vermont  Studio Center

2024

Johnson, VT

Testing omission limits + minimizing color and paint

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Museum of  Loss and Renewal

2023

Collemacchia, Italy

Pre‑framework: exploring essence and the thing beside the thing

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