USA -Workhouse Publicity is proud to announce artist Jeff Scott and his dramatic works of art, Elvis: The Personal Archives and Between Midnight. With the cooperation of the Elvis Presley estate, he gained unprecedented access to Elvis’s personal possessions and property.  After more than five years, Scott presents Elvis: The Personal Archives, a complex series of original object artwork created from Scotts’ unique access to Elvis’s very private things. The way Scott juxtaposes Elvis’s favorite pistol and narcotics badge reveals a fundamental rift between Presley’s rebellious reputation and his private obsession with police and authority. The Gold bedside telephone, the TV with a bullet hole through the screen, Thumbprint, and his Tennessee operators’ license provide a rare portrayal of Elvis’s inner life, placing the public man in an intimate context and elevating the commonplace to the level of worship.  Scott uses photogravure prints to make physical objects out of Elvis’s original artifacts, thus allowing the viewer to experience the tactile sensation of interacting with Elvis’s personal things. Through this work Scott explores our complex relationship with modern celebrity culture and the ways in which our possessions and material objects outlive us to tell our story. To schedule an interview with Artist Jeff Scott please contact Senior Executive, Anna De Souza by telephone at 212.645.8006 or via email anna@workhousepr.com.

While Scott finds the ordinary in the otherwise extraordinary, he also finds beauty in the mundane.  Get caught in the vivid and captivating urban drama that plays out in Between Midnight.  Jeff Scott removes the focus and perspective from his lens as he ventures into the dark shadows of night, bringing back an unsettling yet sensual vision of our hidden urban anxieties. Through poignant surveillance footage what results is a startlingly provocative expose of the hours most of us miss, a blurred nocturnal frenzy reflective of our own dreamlike state.  Scott photographs seemingly casual aspects of suburban life and takes us on a voyeuristic late-night exploration into partially open windows and moving shadows.  These stills and film works explore the esoteric unknown lives taking place within a gritty, film noir storyline, referencing early American cinema and bringing to mind the iconographic films of Huston, Hitchcock and Lynch.  These psychological nightscapes are created as objects measuring up to eight feet, physically occupying and altering the viewers’ space. Scott’s photogravure print works from this series are intimate and seductive objects produced in editions of 10 and 25 prints. Scotts’ latest Between Midnight abstract films, varying in length from two to five minutes, work to twinge the sensibilities, evoking a private psychodrama that threatens to draw the viewer deeper and deeper into an unhinged urban underworld laid bare.

JEFF SCOTT
Jeff Scott is an artist known for his dramatic imagery of America’s historic and cultural landscape. He has exhibited widely in the United States, and his work is in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution, as well as Elvis Presley Enterprises, Disneyland, Polo Ralph Lauren, E.A. Carmean, Jr. and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Portions of his series based on Elvis’s personal archives were exhibited recently at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. Jeff Scott is also the author of Elvis: The Personal Archives(Channel Photographics), a stunning collection of his artwork from his series of the same name. For more information about the artwork of Jeff Scott please visit www.jeffscottstudio.com