Walter Scott: Betazoid in a Fog

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Walter Scott, "Piranha Pants," 2018

plaster, acrylic, wood and fabric, dimensions variable. (courtesy of the artist)

Since 2011, Walter Scott has gained a cult following for his Wendy comic strip and graphic novels, a sardonic take on the art world navigated from the perspective of an ambitious young woman whose dreams are perpetually derailed. Scott's narrative sensibility and approach to style, self-image and tragi-comedy extend to his sculptural works, drawings and plaster carvings.

Featuring an installation of new and recent work, Betazoid in a Fog explores disembodiment and empathy, moving between flat and full forms, feelings and modes of thought. Shapes and fragments pose, wink and nudge, projecting daffy, poetic and self-conscious personas.

Walter Scott (b. 1985) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes writing, video, performance and sculpture. In 2011, while living in Montréal, he created Wendy, a comic book series about a fictional young woman living in an urban centre who aspires to global success and art stardom. Contemporary questions of representation, cultural production, popular culture and narrative construction are central to his practice. Wendy has been featured in Canadian Art and Art in America, and was published online by The New Yorker. It was selected for the 2016 edition of Best American Comics, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York. Recent exhibitions include Big Toe, Giant Steps (2016), Occidental Temporary, Paris;Ambivalent Pleasures: Vancouver Special(2016), Vancouver Art Gallery; and Who Isn’t She? A Wendy Retrospective (2017), Galerie UQO, Gatineau. In 2016, Scott was Artist-In-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario.