Suzanna Scott "Trumped Nuts"

North American artist, Suzanna Scott, simultaneously seduces and repulses the viewer through her excessive use of sutured stitching, skin-like surfaces, witty references to various body parts, and shades of the color pink. She gravitates towards sculpting in multiples using everyday materials and discarded objects.
By embracing repetition as a tool throughout her work, Scott emphasizes the ever/never evolving social struggles we face at the intersection of existence within our body and society. She uses her work to step into and examine the sticky landscape surrounding gender, sexuality, equality, and bodily autonomy.
Scott’s work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally in Chile, Malta, Spain, Russia, Germany, France and Mexico. She lives in Ruston, Louisiana where she rage-stitches daily in her garage studio.

The ‘Trumped Nuts’ serve as wearable objects calling out the exhaustive buffoonery of American politics today and the negative influence it is breeding around the world. Two disparate groups voted the current president into office and continue to support him no matter the cost. They are represented in this pairing of low-brow truck nuts with old-school bow ties. The object is now a symbol of false bravado and self-serving hubris. I’m asking artists to clip on a pair of ‘Trumped Nuts’ and take a self-portrait. This personal action/documentation by individual artists worldwide will serve as a collection of visual resistance to a threat that is consuming us all

Learn more about her artwork and exhibitions on our website.