Life, always hanging in the balance
Struggling within the jaws of the universe Scott Meskill’s “Fall Down and Rust” coming to ShockBoxx in Hermosa Beach by Bondo Wyszpolski The figures in Scott Meskill’s recent and not-so-recent paintings are pretty much cut from the same cloth. Generally speaking, they’re male, nude, and often in a curled or contorted position. None of them have smooth, flawless skin, and several call to mind an écorché, a figurural study in which the skin has been removed in order to highlight the musculature of the body. Leonardo da Vinci and Andreas Vesalius are two artists who drew these in order to better understand human anatomy. Think of Body Works; it’s kind of like that. Scott Meskill in his studio. Photo by Bondo Wyszpolski Meskill’s figures may be stripped of their clothes and even their skin, but they are certainly not stripped of their humanity. What they are scraped clean of, flayed if you wish, are the social baggage and veneer of rules and regulations that are imposed on us from the outside. That’s my take, at least: These are raw human beings, exposed and naked before the world. “Morals in the Dust,” by Scott Meskill In many of his previous paintings, Meskill’s figures are set into…
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