SCOTTIE BURGESS

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Contact:
info@scottieburgess.com

Black-and-white portrait of artist Scottie Burgess.
Statement:
Nothing is ever still. As the world unfolds, sculpture and installation become constellations of materials, histories, relationships, and processes through which meaning unfolds. Rather than resolving uncertainty, they cultivate presence and belief in an imagined future while meaning continually shifts as it takes shape.

Materials are not inert; they respond, accumulate significance, and orient experience. From this dialogue, understanding emerges through participation rather than intellectual understanding alone. Assemblage recognizes how materials, people, environments, and cultural systems continually shape and transform one another. Form is the condensation of what is felt and encountered into something perceptible.

Through gesture, experimentation, and material dialogue, making becomes a way to translate the human condition, guided by sensitivity and intuition as it reaches toward the ineffable, feeling along the edges of what can never be fully known.

Bio:
Scottie Burgess is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and designer from Colorado whose practice centers on sculpture and installation. Working across physical and digital processes, his work explores material transformation, ecology, and the shifting relationships through which materials, people, and environments continually shape one another.

Burgess received dual BFAs in Digital Design and Sculpture/Transmedia from the University of Colorado Denver after beginning his artistic studies through a scholarship to the Bemis School of Art as a youth. He previously taught at the University of Colorado Denver and is currently pursuing an MFA in Sculpture at Louisiana State University, where he also teaches. His work has been exhibited nationally, including in Biennial 600: Textile/Fiber at the Amarillo Museum of Art, and has been featured in publications including The Guardian and Colossal. He has been a resident artist at RedLine Contemporary Art Center, a fellow and resident artist with the Museum of Outdoor Arts, and remains active in the performance iron-casting community.





Nothing is ever still. As the world unfolds, sculpture and installation become constellations of materials, histories, relationships, and processes through which meaning unfolds. Rather than resolving uncertainty, they cultivate presence and belief in an imagined future while meaning continually shifts as it takes shape. Materials are not inert; they respond, accumulate significance, and orient experience. From this dialogue, understanding emerges through participation rather than intellectual understanding alone. Assemblage recognizes how materials, people, environments, and cultural systems continually shape and transform one another. Form is the condensation of what is felt and encountered into something perceptible. Through gesture, experimentation, and material dialogue, making becomes a way to translate the human condition, guided by sensitivity and intuition as it reaches toward the ineffable, feeling along the edges of what can never be fully known.