Scott Fife

born Moscow, Idaho, 1949

BiographyRealist sculptor and Seattle artist Scott Fife holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of Idaho and a Masters of Fine Art from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He was granted fellowships by the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1989 and Artist Trust in 1999. Galleries and museums have hosted his one-person exhibitions since the mid-1970s, and he regularly exhibited in Berlin in the 1980s and 1990s. Tacoma Art Museum held a retrospective exhibition of his work in 2004 and The Missoula Art Museum, Montana hosted a solo show of his work in 2010.

Scott Fife follows in the footsteps of Pop artists from the 1960s and 1970s by focusing on the fads and fascinations of American culture and using nontraditional materials to create his sculptures. Beginning with commercial products, he turned to objects from everyday life and also created a series of portraits of celebrities all fashioned using archival cardboard, glue, and screws. To give these simple things greater cachet, Fife often recreates them at an exaggerated scale making them literally larger-than-life.

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