ARDEN SCOTT: ICE BOATS
August 27 - October 31, 2020

The Arts Center at Duck Creek is pleased to announce Ice Boats, an outdoor exhibition of sculpture by Greenport-based artist Arden Scott. The show will feature six of Scott’s powder-coated steel sculptures on the grounds at Duck Creek through October 31, 2020.

A lifelong sailor, much of Scott’s work traces the form of a sailboat and its fluidity at sea. The titles of the six freestanding sculptures featured refer simply to the color of each work, and it’s “tack.” For those unfamiliar with sailing terms, tack is the desired course a boat takes into the wind. Scott captures this moment with wonderful accuracy, balancing the works on the ground as a boat balances on it’s keel. As you walk through the property at Duck Creek Farm, the compositions expand or contract as they overlaps their counterparts. The multi-colored works drift through and past each other, mimicking the movement of the many sailboats in Three Mile Harbor, a stones throw from this installation.

Arden Scott, now in her 80’s was living and working in lower Manhattan when in 1960 she was invited by Ivan Karp to participate in the inaugural exhibition at OK Harris Gallery, NY.. A wife and mother, the artist made ends meet by taking jobs traditionally filed by men, and he secured a studio space in an NYC shipyard as her work began to grow in scale. In 1973 she was included in the Whitney Biennial and moved to Greenport, N.Y. a few years later. She has received numerous grants and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, NY Foundation of the Arts, and most recently, a Pollock – Krasner Foundation Fellowship. She has also appeared in the New York Times in an August 2002 article entitled “Far from Midtown, She’s Fallen in Love with the Sea.” Arden Scott is represented by VSOP Projects in Greenport, NY. More information about the artist can be found here:

For further information please contact Jess Frost at duckcreekarts@gmail.com