Free-Dumb
Size: 30’ x 25' x 16'Materials: Shoppoing Carts, plastic bindings, and bamboo
Completed: 2026
Poems at the End of Our World
Size: 13’ x 8' x 5'Materials: Cardboard
Completed: 2025
Defunct Edifice
Size: VariableMaterials:
Wood pallets, bamboo, 3D printed PLA, cotton & magnet cassette tape.
Completed: 2025
Somewhere Between Intimacy and a Hole
Size: 45” x 45”' x 3'Materials: Magenta flock and duct tape on wood
Completed: 2023
Nutrient Dense
Size: 7' x 2' x 2'Materials:
Silverware, dental floss, table salt and light projection.
Completed: 2024
What’s Seen Resilient Above Ground
Size: 7' x 5' x 1.5'Materials: Polystyrene & acrylic paint
Completed: 2024
Burnt Vessel
Size: 1' x 1.5' x 8"Materials: Cast Iron
Completed: 2024
Loaded Logo
Materials: Motion GraphicCompleted: 2021
Brand Power (Installation View)
Materials: Polystyrene & paintSize: 12' x 24' x 12'
Completed: 2021
Distortions of James Webb Photograph
Materials: ProjectionCompleted: 2023
Celestial Static
Materials: FiberSize: 5' x 6' x 3"
Completed: 2023
Cause to Become
Materials: Expanded Polystyrene & latex paintSize: 9.5' x 3' x 3'
Completed: 2020
+Umbra
Materials: Procjetion of motion graphicsSize: Variable
Completed: 2022
+Umbra
Materials: Motion Graphics ProjectionSize: Variable
Completed: 2022
Superior Gems (1)
Materials: Bronze & glassSize: Variable
Completed: 2021
Superior Gems (4)
Materials: Bronze & glassSize: Variable
Completed: 2021
Light of Hand
Materials: Projection of hand, sand & metalSize: Variable
Completed: 2023
Passing Through
Materials: Wood, cotton & twineSize: 12' x 24' x 12'
Completed: 2020
Gonzo
Materials: Twine & silicone rubberSize: 6' x 9' x 9"
Completed: 2019
Substratum
Materials: Twine & carpet paddingSize: 10'4" x 5'4" x 11"
Completed: 2019
AMoA Biennial Installation View
Materials: MixedSize: Variable
Completed: 2019
Sources of Power
Materials: Paper & staplesSize: 8' x 6' x 8'
Completed: 2021
Super Power Objects
Materials: Cast iron, wood, tar, staples and silicon carbideSize: 8' x 6' x 8'
Completed: 2021
Sky Vessel
Materials: Cast iron, upcycled dead tree & paintSize: 50' x 12' x 12'
Completed: 2021
The Chances of All This
Materials: Graphite, paper, upholstery needles & twineSize: 9' x 8' x 2'
Completed: 2018
Traced Cavity
Materials: Cotton & twineSize: 48" x 64" x 8"
Completed: 2020
Sundile
Materials: Twine & woodSize: 70" x 36" x 8"
Completed: 2020
Filters (Installation View
Materials: Twine and mixed mediaSize: Variable
Completed: 2020
Under Current
Materials: TwineSize: 41" x 41" x 8"
Completed: 2020
Unearthed Screen
Materials: Twine & mixed mediaSize: 53" x 53" x 9"
Completed: 2020
Abounding Veil
Materials: Twine, tar & silicon carbideSize: 76" x 42" x 24"
Completed: 2020
Surface Tension
Materials: Polyurethane resin & ropeSize: 12.5" x 9" x 9"
Completed: 2016
Ties Forward
Materials: Railroad ties & latex paintSize: 12.5' x 9' x 9'
Completed: 2016
Civic Treasures
Materials: Aluminum bronze & pavement tapeSize: Variable
Completed: 2016
Civic Treasures
Materials: Aluminum bronze & pavement tapeSize: Variable
Completed: 2016
Weight of our Doors
Materials: Beetle Kill PineSize: 8' x 7' x 4'
Completed: 2016
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STATEMENT:
Nothing is ever still. As the world unfolds, sculpture and installation become constellations of materials, histories, relationships, and processes through which meaning unfolds. Rather than resolving uncertainty, they cultivate presence and belief in an imagined future while meaning continually shifts as it takes shape.
Materials are not inert; they respond, accumulate significance, and orient experience. From this dialogue, understanding emerges through participation rather than intellectual understanding alone. Assemblage recognizes how materials, people, environments, and cultural systems continually shape and transform one another. Form is the condensation of what is felt and encountered into something perceptible.
Through gesture, experimentation, and material dialogue, making becomes a way to translate the human condition, guided by sensitivity and intuition as it reaches toward the ineffable, feeling along the edges of what can never be fully known.
Scottie Burgess is a contemporary artist, educator, and designer from Colorado whose work is rooted in sculpture and installation. Working across physical and digital processes, he draws from ecological thought, material inquiry, and contemporary forms of cultural experience to explore how meaning emerges through shifting relationships.
Although expressed through different mediums, Burgess's work has consistently explored how meaning emerges through relationships. Early interests in philosophy, live sound, and the ritual nature of underground rave culture, particularly within Drum & Bass, continue to shape his sculptural practice. While working in audio engineering at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Burgess realized that although sound profoundly shaped his thinking, visual language came most naturally as his mode of making. Drawn to the intersection of technology and the unseen, he pursued digital design before those investigations eventually manifested in sculpture and installation.
Among Burgess's earliest formal studies were classes at the Bemis School of Art, where he attended on scholarship as a child, before later earning dual BFAs in Digital Design and Sculpture/Transmedia from the University of Colorado Denver. While completing his degrees, he studied design at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS) in Copenhagen and later completed certification through INDEX: Design to Improve Life, an international initiative exploring creativity and design as catalysts for social and environmental change. During this time, he also apprenticed under Denver sculptor John McEnroe, an experience that became a turning point in his understanding of form and materials.
Alongside his studio work, Burgess has developed collaborative design initiatives, public artworks, and interdisciplinary projects that cultivate participation, dialogue, and shared experience. Together, these endeavors reflect an enduring interest in how art lives and behaves in the world, continually shaping and being shaped by relationships among people, materials, and place.
Burgess previously taught at the University of Colorado Denver and is currently pursuing an MFA in Sculpture at Louisiana State University, where he also teaches. He has been a resident artist at RedLine Contemporary Art Center, a fellow and resident artist with the Museum of Outdoor Arts, a member of Pirate: Contemporary Art, and remains active in the performance iron-casting community. His work is included in public collections across Colorado and has been exhibited throughout the United States in museums, galleries, and public spaces, including Biennial 600: Textile/Fiber at the Amarillo Museum of Art. His work has been featured in publications including The Guardian and Colossal.