Scott Hocking
Scott Hocking was born in Redford Township, Michigan. He has lived and worked in Detroit proper since 1996. He creates site-specific installations, sculptures and photography projects, often using found materials and neglected locations. Inspired by subjects ranging from ancient mythologies to current events, his artworks focus on transformation, ephemerality, chance, and the cycles of nature.
His artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally at numerous US and Europe Museums. His art projects have been featured in numerous publications such as including Art Forum, ArtNet, and Art 21
He has received multiple awards, including a Kresge Artist Fellowship, a Knight Foundation Arts Challenge Grant, and an Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, as well as residential grants in France, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Brazil, and throughout the United States. He is represented by David Klein Gallery, Detroit.
Scott Hocking Statement
Created through the pandemic, quarantines, floods and calamities of the last 2 years, the 3 works in this exhibit are a direct result of the strange times we’ve experienced in 2020 and 2021. With Covid-19 thrusting all of our lives into the unknown, I found myself with newfound free time - able to slow down, explore, and revisit ideas that I previously had zero time for. And as another natural disaster struck, in the form of a deluge and subsequent Edenville Dam failure, our group of close friends found a second tragedy to rally around. In a grim twist, one calamity afforded us the time to clean up the wreckage of another. Throughout it all, kayaking
became a way to navigate, observe, meditate, and find solace in nature, as well as spend physically distanced time with friends, in the midst of the most isolating years we can remember. These 3 artworks – two video works and one sculptural installation – are a glimpse into my 20/20 hindsight view from the kayak.
Kayaking Through The Quarantimes, (2020-2021 Digital Film, 20 min.), compiles scenes from 15 different kayaking trips throughout Detroit and Southeast Michigan, and from Saginaw to Toledo, Ohio.
Eden In The Plague Year, (2020-2021, Digital Film, 11 min.), compiles scenes from the Edenville Dam failure and subsequent flooding that forever altered the landscape and topography of Krieger Ranch, the Tittabawassee River, and Wixom Lake.
Woodsmun of the Forest, (2021, Wood and Artifacts from the Bottom of Wixom Lake, 8 ft H x 4 ft W x 2 ft D.), a freestanding sculpture and wall installation created from objects unearthed and retrieved along the old and new routes of the Tittabawassee River, Edenville, Michigan.
His artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally at numerous US and Europe Museums. His art projects have been featured in numerous publications such as including Art Forum, ArtNet, and Art 21
He has received multiple awards, including a Kresge Artist Fellowship, a Knight Foundation Arts Challenge Grant, and an Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, as well as residential grants in France, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Brazil, and throughout the United States. He is represented by David Klein Gallery, Detroit.
Scott Hocking Statement
Created through the pandemic, quarantines, floods and calamities of the last 2 years, the 3 works in this exhibit are a direct result of the strange times we’ve experienced in 2020 and 2021. With Covid-19 thrusting all of our lives into the unknown, I found myself with newfound free time - able to slow down, explore, and revisit ideas that I previously had zero time for. And as another natural disaster struck, in the form of a deluge and subsequent Edenville Dam failure, our group of close friends found a second tragedy to rally around. In a grim twist, one calamity afforded us the time to clean up the wreckage of another. Throughout it all, kayaking
became a way to navigate, observe, meditate, and find solace in nature, as well as spend physically distanced time with friends, in the midst of the most isolating years we can remember. These 3 artworks – two video works and one sculptural installation – are a glimpse into my 20/20 hindsight view from the kayak.
Kayaking Through The Quarantimes, (2020-2021 Digital Film, 20 min.), compiles scenes from 15 different kayaking trips throughout Detroit and Southeast Michigan, and from Saginaw to Toledo, Ohio.
Eden In The Plague Year, (2020-2021, Digital Film, 11 min.), compiles scenes from the Edenville Dam failure and subsequent flooding that forever altered the landscape and topography of Krieger Ranch, the Tittabawassee River, and Wixom Lake.
Woodsmun of the Forest, (2021, Wood and Artifacts from the Bottom of Wixom Lake, 8 ft H x 4 ft W x 2 ft D.), a freestanding sculpture and wall installation created from objects unearthed and retrieved along the old and new routes of the Tittabawassee River, Edenville, Michigan.
