Artist Statement
Scott Kuffner is an interdisciplinary artist working across painting, drawing, printmaking, and textile-based processes. His work investigates image circulation, consumer culture, labor, and the relationship between traditional mark-making and contemporary visual culture.
RECENT EXHIBITIONs
9th wave
This exhibition focuses on the painting titled, 9th Wave seen on the righthand side of gallery space. 9th wave, a large mixed media artwork on denim was built through layering acrylic paint and chalk pastel. Kuffner captures a fluid yet concrete rendering of two figures containing both physical representations of the artist but also a spiritual confrontation.
The term “9th Wave” is seen throughout literature and the arts, a phrase used at sea to prepare for the final and most powerful wave of a storm
The work was exhibited at SAIC galleries located at 33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL throughout April 2026
Undercurrents
Marta Czok Foundation, Venice, Italy
January 2026
Three of Kuffner’s work on display at the Marta Cook Foundation in Venice as apart of a recent exhibition titled Undercurrents.
From left to right we are viewing a mixed media drawing titled, Minerva Overlooking Venice as well as a diptych titled Adam and Eve.
Kuffner is commenting on the overconsumption of religious iconography with the diptych titled, Adam and Eve. Instead of working with the traditional depiction of these figures he instead uses wax sculptures of plague victims created by Gaetano Zumbo (1656-1701) as reference. The original works currently housed at the La Specola museum in Florence, Italy have been translated into Oil paint on canvas in Kuffner’s rendition.
aT THE aLTER
Scott Kuffner
Exhibition layout presenting selected works from an ongoing series
2026
This exhibition displays Kuffner’s most recent pieces. The title of the exhibition refers to the largest painting in the first grouping to our left.
Kuffner has continued his exploration of material working with acrylic and chalk on muslin.
The subjects in these 4 groupings reflect a sense of maturity in their content. Works like Mother and Son (6th from left) contain the artist confronting themes of parenthood, and commitment.
In contrast, the Red Earth Blue Sky Diptych (3rd-4th from left) displays coldly painted figures without identity in abstracted environments of color.
At the Alter
Photo taken from installation of the exhibition, At the Alter
2026