Peter Scott's work intrudes into the safety of domestic settings while considering issues of class and privilege.

This untitled installation appears at first to contain nothing but elegant wallpaper. Upon closer examination, images of police sketches of criminals emerge before the viewer.This work presents the American preoccupation with crime as well as our fascination with those who have transgressed the social order.

In re-presenting these drawings on the reverse of wallpaper, a surface which suggests comfort and familiarity, one's confidence in the distinctions between the world "out there" and one's private experience of it is called into question.

Pattern and surface texture,usually functioning as decoration, alternately camouflage and reveal the perpetrators beneath, but never completely contain or obliterate them. The pleasantness of a mildly affluent room suggested by the satin walls is disquieted by the notion that they lack solidity, providing no safe borders between ourselves and the world at large.

Peter Scott is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and attended the Rijksakadamie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His work has been exhibited at White Columns, NYC, Galerie Rizzo, Paris, De Lege Ruimte, Brugge, Belgium, and Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT. Following his exhibition at Momenta, Scott has exhibited at The Best Surprise is No Surprise, Holiday Inn, NYC. He guest-curated an exhibition at Momenta titled Nobodies Home, and received a NYFA fellowship in sculpture.