Michael Scoggins meticulously creates giant sheets of notebook and graph paper, complete with binder holes and ragged edges, to emulate the larger-than-life world that children experience. Onto these surfaces he scrawls musings that vacillate between childhood innocence and adult worldliness, with a baffling sincerity. Ironic, humorous, meaningful and socially critical, these large scale works on paper utilize the perspective of a child to address fears, politics, crushes, and mass-media messages that face us all.
Read more in MOCA's intro panel, gallery guide or news articles: Virginian-Pilot and Portfolio Weekly.
Purchase the Michael Scoggins’ cataglogue at the MOCA Museum Shop.
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