Clockwise From Top Left Corner:
Buoyflora (Drago), buoys, spray-foam, acrylic, steel, 94" x 46", 2015;
Artist Scott Bluedorn in front of Lost Sou(u)l(e)s,
found shoe souls on wood panel, 40" x 32", 2015 (Photo: Josh Cohen);
No Oasis, Acrylic on wood panel, 10" x 10", 2014;
Constellation Shack;
House of the Whale, Ink on paper, 12" x 16", 2013,
Available as an archival digital giclee print on
cotton rag paper, edition of 50;
It Came from Plum Gut, ink on paper, 24" x 19", 2015,
Available as an archival digital giclee print
on cotton rag paper, edition of 50;
Moby Dick of the Deep, cyanotype print,
edition of 12, 22" x 30", 2012,
(editions 11/12 and 12/12 available)
“I am a multi-disciplinary artist and designer native to the east end of Long Island. In addition to my more traditional work within painting, drawing, collage, and print process, I work pseudonymously as ‘Theo Blue’, an imagined ‘primitive hermit-artist’. Under this alter ego, I create assemblage from castaway marine debris that addresses the issue of disposability of commodities in modern society through a supernatural lens. I draw inspiration for this body
of work from the cargo cults of the South Pacific in particular- small isolated communities that began to worship the US Army as ‘bringers of civilization’ through material goods during and after World War II. In the complimentary roles of environmentalist and proponent of repurposed materials, I ask you to consider what is “disposable”, what ends up in our oceans, and how an object may live on in unintended ways after its initial usefulness."
Artist, illustrator and designer Scott Bluedorn works in various media, including painting, drawing, print process, and found object assemblage. Often distilling surreal imagery from the seemingly familiar, the artist draws from cultural anthropology and nautical tradition with supernatural overtones- a world he invokes as “maritime cosmology”. He lives and works in East Hampton, NY.