{"id":3159,"date":"2012-11-23T12:57:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T17:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2012-11-23T13:19:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T18:19:12","slug":"scott-conary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/23\/scott-conary\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Conary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Conary is a painter originally from the east coast but now living &amp; working in Portland, OR. It seems like every American painter I&#8217;ve noticed over the last year lives in Brooklyn or Portland. In any case, I was hanging out on Pinterest and saw a great painting of a cut of meat that I \u00a0pinned <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/IanRogers\/compelling-images\/\" target=\"_blank\">to my own board<\/a> immediately. I&#8217;ve been going back to look at it for a week or two now and it still captivates me. Unlike many artworks on Pinterest, this one was correctly attributed and even linked to the artist&#8217;s site, so here we are, Scott Conary. Lo and behold, not one painting of meat, but lots of them &#8211; these are 3 of my favourites &#8211; click on the thumbnails to see larger versions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<div id='gallery-3159-1' class='gallery gallery-3159'>\n\t\t\t\t<div class='gallery-row gallery-clear'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-3'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/23\/scott-conary\/scott-conary-lamb-chop-4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Scott-Conary-lamb-chop-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Scott Conary - lamb chop 4\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Scott-Conary-lamb-chop-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Scott-Conary-lamb-chop-4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Scott-Conary-lamb-chop-4.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='gallery-caption'>Scott Conary &#8211; lamb chop 4<\/dd>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-3'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/23\/scott-conary\/scott-conary-lambchop\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Scott-Conary-lambchop-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Scott Conary - lamb chop\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Scott-Conary-lambchop-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Scott-Conary-lambchop-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Scott-Conary-lambchop.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='gallery-caption'>Scott Conary &#8211; lamb chop<\/dd>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-3'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/23\/scott-conary\/scott-conary-wall-chop\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/scott-conary-wall-chop-118x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"scott conary - wall chop\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/scott-conary-wall-chop-118x150.jpg 118w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/scott-conary-wall-chop-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/scott-conary-wall-chop.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 118px) 100vw, 118px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='gallery-caption'>Scott Conary &#8211; wall chop<\/dd>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class='gallery-row gallery-clear'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-3'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/23\/scott-conary\/rembrandt-carcass-of-beef-1657\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"105\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Rembrandt-Carcass-of-Beef-1657-105x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Rembrandt - Carcass of Beef 1657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Rembrandt-Carcass-of-Beef-1657-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Rembrandt-Carcass-of-Beef-1657-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Rembrandt-Carcass-of-Beef-1657.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 105px) 100vw, 105px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='gallery-caption'>Rembrandt &#8211; Carcass of Beef &#8211; 1657<\/dd>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-3'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/23\/scott-conary\/soutine-side-of-beef-1924-5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"109\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/soutine-side-of-beef-1924-5-109x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Soutine - Side of Beef 1924-5\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/soutine-side-of-beef-1924-5-109x150.jpg 109w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/soutine-side-of-beef-1924-5-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/soutine-side-of-beef-1924-5.jpg 471w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 109px) 100vw, 109px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='gallery-caption'>Soutine &#8211; Side of Beef 1924-5<\/dd>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .gallery -->\n\n<blockquote><p>The meat paintings are, understandably, the pieces that elicit the most questions. The first is usually, &#8220;Why meat?&#8221; The glib answer is &#8220;you can only paint so many pears.&#8221; The longer answer is that the meat is beautiful and mildly evocative. We have a much more complicated reaction to a hunk of lamb than we do to pepper. The meat is the stuff of us. We are, after all, meat. The smell shifts while I work. The color changes. I have vivid memories of meals with family and friends built around meat.It&#8217;s beautiful, desirable, and it&#8217;s unclean.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottconary.com\/work\/meat\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Conary\u00a0<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to look at a painting of meat and not think of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rembrandtpainting.net\/complete_catalogue\/landscape\/ox.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Rembrandt<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/artandperception.com\/2010\/01\/chaim-soutine%E2%80%99s-carcass-paintings-%E2%80%93-part-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Soutine<\/a>, of course. Which is not to say that Conary&#8217;s work is deriviative, but rather that it exists within a tradition of still life that goes back centuries.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<div id='gallery-3159-2' class='gallery gallery-3159'>\n\t\t\t\t<div class='gallery-row gallery-clear'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-3'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/23\/scott-conary\/scott-conary-lamb-chop-4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Scott-Conary-lamb-chop-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Scott Conary - lamb chop 4\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Scott-Conary-lamb-chop-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Scott-Conary-lamb-chop-4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Scott-Conary-lamb-chop-4.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='gallery-caption'>Scott Conary &#8211; lamb chop 4<\/dd>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-3'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/23\/scott-conary\/scott-conary-lambchop\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Scott-Conary-lambchop-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Scott Conary - lamb chop\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Scott-Conary-lambchop-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Scott-Conary-lambchop-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Scott-Conary-lambchop.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='gallery-caption'>Scott Conary &#8211; lamb chop<\/dd>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-3'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/23\/scott-conary\/scott-conary-wall-chop\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/scott-conary-wall-chop-118x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"scott conary - wall chop\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/scott-conary-wall-chop-118x150.jpg 118w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/scott-conary-wall-chop-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/scott-conary-wall-chop.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 118px) 100vw, 118px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='gallery-caption'>Scott Conary &#8211; wall chop<\/dd>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class='gallery-row gallery-clear'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-3'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/23\/scott-conary\/rembrandt-carcass-of-beef-1657\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"105\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Rembrandt-Carcass-of-Beef-1657-105x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Rembrandt - Carcass of Beef 1657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Rembrandt-Carcass-of-Beef-1657-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Rembrandt-Carcass-of-Beef-1657-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Rembrandt-Carcass-of-Beef-1657.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 105px) 100vw, 105px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='gallery-caption'>Rembrandt &#8211; Carcass of Beef &#8211; 1657<\/dd>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-3'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/23\/scott-conary\/soutine-side-of-beef-1924-5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"109\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/soutine-side-of-beef-1924-5-109x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Soutine - Side of Beef 1924-5\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/soutine-side-of-beef-1924-5-109x150.jpg 109w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/soutine-side-of-beef-1924-5-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/soutine-side-of-beef-1924-5.jpg 471w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 109px) 100vw, 109px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='gallery-caption'>Soutine &#8211; Side of Beef 1924-5<\/dd>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .gallery -->\n\n<p>The French term for &#8220;Still Life&#8221; is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nature_morte\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Morte<\/a>&#8220;, which translates literally as &#8220;dead nature&#8221;. \u00a0Seems fitting here. There is a lushness to paintings of meat that is simultaneously attractive and repellant, gruesome and beautiful. There&#8217;s something kind of transcendant about that, to me.\u00a0That said, Conary&#8217;s oeuvre is substantially broader than paintings of meat. Conary&#8217;s work, while very painterly, rests strongly within traditions of representational realism which I find reassuring to see in this age of installation and performance art. I suggest you check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottconary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">his portfolio site<\/a>, there is lots to like.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Conary is a painter originally from the east coast but now living &amp; working in Portland, OR. It seems like every American painter I&#8217;ve noticed over the last year lives in Brooklyn or Portland. In any case, I was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[348,129],"tags":[294,227,175,128,126,127,315,673],"class_list":["post-3159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-art-2","category-painters","tag-american-artist","tag-american-artists","tag-art","tag-contemporary-art","tag-painter","tag-painting","tag-realist-painting","tag-scott-conary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JDlZ-OX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}