Scott Zimmer is an American artist who works in painting, ceramics, and the garden to explore how form, color, and texture affect us emotionally. Working from a place that emphasizes emotional intelligence and intuitive processes, Zimmer manipulates these materials, prompting us to question our personal aesthetic in relation to notions of beauty. He does this by inviting the viewer to experience intimate moments that are gateways to broader meditative mindscapes. By embracing processes across media that mirror cycles of growth and decay, layers of unexpected arrangements and patterns emerge, alluding to hidden intelligences. The hierarchy of linear progress is undermined as organized chaos is frozen in time, whether it be on the canvas, in the kiln, or growing from the ground up. 

Gardening has been a major influence on Zimmer, who believes that observing up close the expansion and collapse of natural structures allows one to draw parallels to our own physicality and mortality. This observation of the more concealed acts in nature has shaped his desire to locate the unknown in the studio, which he accomplishes by trading a controlling approach for a more intuitive one akin to choreography. His particular path to abstraction is inspired by collecting piles of weeds and spent flowers, what is left behind. Paring down and abstracting these elements allows the debris hovering between life and death to be seen through a new lens. These explorations continue to build on past queries, investigating how form, color, and texture can elicit visceral emotional responses.