Brooklyn-based, interdisciplinary artist Scott Teplin creates paintings, drawings, and prints that merge possible and impossible elements of space, objects and anatomy. Humorous, grotesque, and whimsical, Teplin calls on a wellspring of childhood memories and feelings to return viewers to a place of innocence and uncertainty; where anything and everything is possible and believable.
Teplin is drawn to the variability, warmth and imperfect line quality that a steel-nib dip pen lends to his work. His obsessive layering of color emphasizes the illusion of depth, inviting viewers to wonder what’s around the next corner.
Teplin’s meticulously rendered, labyrinthine buildings offer an invitation for viewers to navigate on their own playful terms. In this series, which began in the early 1990’s, Teplin has merged the tight boundary of isometric composition with the boundless personality that inhabits the space. More recently Teplin’s isometric works have stretched the margins further by incorporating impossible elements resulting in optical sensations of depth.