Susan Hobbs

Sharing themes with his recent exhibition in Paris, Scott Lyall will present a set of pictorial works comprising print graphics, photographs, painting, and exhibition décor. Although apparently diverse, the elements in this show will share underlying procedures of pictorial design. The crux of this relationship is an idea about facture, a term established in the writings of the Constructivist avant-garde. This word—also popular with French painters in the 70s—describes the art work in terms of concrete analysis. But here, it also describes an object of multiple spatial dimensions, transmitted by graphemes between the information file, the screen image, and concrete grasp. The subject asserts the contemporary identity with such an object as it moves between the poles of irreconcilable or global demands. Collective space is colourized by simultaneous private fantasy; the picture becomes a posting between immaterial and embodied facts