Scott Yardley
After graduating from Parsons School of Design in 1984 with a major in Communication Design and a Minor in Painting, Scott Yardley landed his first job at Esquire magazine. It was here he honed his skill as a typographer, a passion of his since his introduction to the graphic work of Dadaists like André Breton, Raoul Hausmann and Francis Picabia. Merz founder Kurt Schwitters and the Cubist Georges Braque were two of his biggest influences.
Magazine design, before computers, was a cut-and-paste-with-flair vocation using tools and materials that became a staple for Scott’s work. But where the typographic elements used in the mainstream print media were about relating the written word, it was Scott’s eye for detail that brought his attention to the beauty all around him that most would see as mundane. This would inspire him to look closer, and expose exquisite detail and create newfound relationships of type and form with often ignored and discarded objects.
The Sum Of Its Parts, Collages 1987-1991 is a collection of this work rarely seen together. Many of the pieces, as they were completed, were shown in small groupings at private studios and individually in group shows. Often the work was gifted to friends of the artist, and for many years since, have been scattered around the world in private collections. With the encouragement of the Chystoph Marten Salon in New York’s Chelsea district, the pieces were brought together for an intimate show this past spring.
Scott is currently working on new pieces in Brooklyn, New York.
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