Artist Residencies

Time. Focus. Community. Perspective.

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.

These residencies are part of how Structural Omission developed in practice, across different contexts, constraints, and working conditions.

Related: Structural Omission | Post-Certainty | Essays

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
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 and video collaboration introducing Structural Omission

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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 and 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 and minimizing color and paint

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Museum of Loss and Renewal

2023
Collemacchia, Italy

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

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