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"Sun + Moon + Knots is a series of paintings combining ideas inspired by petroglyphs carved on rocks in the Arizona & New Mexico deserts and carved interface lines found on Pictish Cross Slab stones in Medieval Scotland.  These images convey people communicating through art forms. This body of work uses a contemporary aesthetic language to reinterpret these images - old messages from the past made new" Scott Kilgour

Michele Mack Gallery announces its new footprint at 236 West 10th Street, NYC with an inaugural exhibition of works by Scott Kilgour; entitled Sun + Moon + Knots, the exhibition celebrates luminous contemporary explorations of art forms from the past.  Kilgour is a Scottish-American artist, born in Glasgow now living in New York, whose birth country influences his current body of work through the Celtic expression and lens.  Kilgour's art ranges across mediums including drawing, painting, prints and sculpture.  His linear style is grounded in Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Art Nouveau aesthetic and based on a foundation of continuous line.  Continuous-line creations form a complete image from a single line and are one of the oldest art forms representing the continuity of social order.  This linear aesthetic defines continuous spatial patterns to illustrate complex and memorable images.

Leveraging line and light in large scale paintings, Kilgour's new body of work examines content influenced by both his Scottish and American exposure.

His Scottish influence is evident through the exploration of Knots, or Celtic Interlace, depicted in Pictish-cross slab carved stones.  These magical, mystical symbols represent opposition, unity and harmony with large scale paintings linking line and motion.  A life-long source of inspiration for Kilgour, complex Knot symbols have numerous subtexts such as ancestry, ideas about memory and continuity, and in the Middle Ages were associated with musical notation.  Kilgour has published on the concept, including his book Interspace:  A Study in Spatial Relationships, which was based on an exhibition at the Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art, as part of the Glasgow UK City for Architecture & Design celebration.