Scott Fraser

Scott Fraser (Evanston, IL, 1957) is one of America’s leading realists still life painters. He is celebrated for his extraordinary technical precision, humorous subject matter, and strongly balanced compositions. His process is labor intensive and is dedicated to the integrity of observational painting. Inspired by art history, Fraser mixes a classical approach to painting with contemporary subject matters and innovative compositions. He incorporates historical vanitas symbols and juxtaposes them with whimsical found objects like flying goldfish, matchboxes, and popcorn. Fraser establishes a key interplay between classic and modern art, the progression or realism, and the distinct vernacular of still life painting. 

 

Fraser attended the Kansas City Art Institute in 1976 then traveled extensively in Europe, which Fraser coins as being the most influential years of his career. His work is in distinguished collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Fine Arts Museums in San Francisco, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; The Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York; Kansas City Art Institute; and the Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Indiana. His work has been reviewed in publications throughout the United States, including the San Francisco Chronicle, ARTnews, and the Denver Post, among others. Fraser is currently being exhibited at Art Basel, Basel, with Jenkins Johnson Gallery.