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Scout Curtin is a Boston, MA and Brooklyn, NY based painter. Her work brings together highly constructed environments with traditional themes in still life and portraiture, creating symbolic spaces where objects and landscapes function as proxies for desire, grief, intimacy, and guardedness. Positioning the viewer as onlooker, her figures often engage from vulnerable, contained postures, reflecting a constant defense against perception. Perhaps overly concerned with taste; pattern, color, and perspective create visual tricks that are at once psychological and visually appealing. Receiving a BA in Critical Visual Studies from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University, she is currently an MFA candidate in Painting at Boston University. Curtin has been an artist in residence at both the Watermill Center, Watermill, NY and the Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury, NH. Her work has been displayed in group and solo exhibitions at Ed Varie, New York, NY, the University of New England, Biddeford, ME, and others. She has given visiting artists talks at both the University of New England and Bowdoin College, Bowdoin, ME.