Torn Notebook - People: Deborah Scott

Deborah Scott
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

On Oldenburg...
"He examines some interesting issues in form. I think he's very interested in the relationship between abstraction and representation and how there's this gray line that separates the two. And sometimes you can cross it over. He looks at objects that exist in reality and takes them further -- and adds meaning to them by changing them only slightly."

On Oldenburg and van Bruggen...
"They work with an object by transforming it, and sometimes in surreal ways juxtaposing it, with things that you would not normally see it near -- or you wouldn't normally make a comparison between the two. Sometimes there's irony involved and sometimes it becomes whimsical, although I know the artists don't really like that reading. But I think some people will read it that way."

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