Visiting Artist Lecture: Scott Hocking
RIT's School of Art welcomes installation and sculpture artist Scott Hocking for a lecture at 11 a.m. Monday, April 13, in Wallace Library, room 2410. The talk is in connection with RIT's involvement in the 2026 Medina Triennial, a new contemporary art initiative for which Hocking is one of the artists.
About Scott Hocking
Scott Hocking was born in Redford Township, Mich., in 1975. He has lived and worked in Detroit city proper since 1996. He creates site-specific installations, sculptures, and photography projects, often using found materials and neglected locations. Inspired by subjects ranging from ancient mythologies to current events, his artworks focus on transformation, ephemerality, chance, the cycles of nature, and patterns of human behavior through time. His site-specific works begin with a deep dive into the history of each site, the people, the layers of time and materials available there, and an interest in connecting our present time with the past. His process involves spending time onsite while also focusing on extensive research, thoroughly understand the environment through experiencing it firsthand, before composing sculptural ideas and sketches. With a meditative practice that often finds him working alone, he has a long-standing interest in creating works that utilize wasted materials and spaces, choosing to recycle and transform both the objects and sites in an attempt to change or shake up a viewer's preconceived ideas and perceptions.
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