As a special feature of The Museum of Everything’s collaboration with Selfridges, Exhibition #4.1 opened during Frieze week 2011, featuring the acclaimed American self-taught artist, Judith Scott (1943-2005).
Continuing its tradition of innovative installations, The Museum of Everything created Exhibition #4.1 in the Old Selfridges Hotel, a vast empty building in the heart of London, where sixty original works by Scott were curated across six thousand square feet - the largest grouping ever assembled in a single European presentation.
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Judith Scott’s twenty-year artistic practice began at Creative Growth in California, the world’s foremost studio for artists with developmental and other disabilities. Although born with Down syndrome, Scott developed a unique aesthetic, gaining national and international recognition and creating several hundred works at the atelier.
Scott’s fibre sculptures have been described by curator Matthew Higgs of White Columns (New York) as among the most important bodies of work of the 20th Century.They have been acquired and admired by artists like David Byrne, Annette Messager, Tal R and Cindy Sherman and are featured in major private and museum collections.
Following Exhibition #4.1, Judith Scott’s life story was featured on BBC2’s The Culture Show. The visibility led to several works being included in Rosemary Trockel: A Cosmos (2012), an exhibition curated by the artist with Lynne Cooke which toured from the Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid), to the New Museum (New York) and Serpentine Gallery (London).
Prior to Exhibition #4.1, Judith Scott’s artworks were exhibited in shows at Gladstone Gallery (New York) in 2006, White Columns (New York) in 2010, Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt) in 2010, Mitchell-Innes and Nash (New York) in 2011 and Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley, California) in 2011. A retrospective of the artist’s work will be presented in 2014 at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn, New York).