scott finch

introverts illustrated

Sep 26 - Oct 26, 2025

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“I draw all the time—while listening to audiobooks, in meetings, watching TV, sitting in the car. When people ask what I’m thinking, I usually say, “Nothing.” And I mean it. The drawing just happens.
I used to mine sketchbooks for themes or big ideas to turn into “real” artwork. But in the past few years, I started thinking of these drawings less as subject matter and more as object matter. I cut them out and play with them visually—layering, collaging, and arranging them into compositions. I try not to think too much at first. It’s about rhythm, about letting forms suggest action through their relationship to each other. This approach led to two bodies of work: Travel Diary and Introverts Illustrated.
Travel Diary came first. It’s a wordless, colorful “comic” drawn during short trips and everyday downtime—waiting rooms, airports, hotel desks. There’s a subtle travel motif: airplanes and clouds, cars on the move, people wandering through abstract landscapes. It felt like a symbolic journey unfolding in real time—shifting moods, changing states, a kind of psychological terrain. That’s where I first saw that the kind of drawing I make compulsively might actually move—through space, rhythm, and sequence.
Introverts Illustrated followed. It’s a series of 21 black-and-white minicomics made over two and a half years through a sustained, intuitive drawing process. I was dream journaling at the time, and thinking about Jung and some of his followers—Robert A. Johnson, James Hillman—who taught me how to hold images gently, without over-defining them. The resulting work leans into dream logic, folklore, and symbolic language. It’s autobiographical in an obscure way—like my unconscious making strange commentary on my life.
Unlike Travel Diary, this series includes text. But the words aren’t explanatory. They’re written intuitively, like the drawings—then edited and composed to interact with the imagery. Sometimes it reads like narration, sometimes a litany of questions, sometimes poetry. The images themselves drift between the spatial syntax of fine art and the pacing of comics. The reader navigates fragments and recurring motifs in a roving, open rhythm.
All of the work is hand-drawn, collaged, and hand-lettered using brush pens, markers, and Sharpies on sketch paper. The copy machine became one of my essential tools—not just for reproduction, but for transformation. I use it to enlarge, reduce, and distort images.
I don’t make work with an audience in mind, but I value what happens when someone engages deeply. Sometimes a reflection helps me see the work—and myself—more clearly. That kind of exchange keeps the practice alive. These works aren’t puzzles or linear stories. They’re records of staying present with an image long enough for it to change—and trying to follow where it leads.” - Finch

Scott Finch (b. 1972) is an artist based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His recent work focuses on comics as a form of drawing and reflection, with an emphasis on small-run publications that merge image, memory, and dream. He is the author of Introverts Illustrated (2025), a 21-part minicomic series, as well as The Domesticated Afterlife (Antenna Press, 2021), Cheer, Charm, Life (Antenna Press, 2020), and A Little World Made Cunningly (Regent Press, 2013).

His work has received recognition in recent years, with The Domesticated Afterlife named one of The Comics Journal’s Best Comics of 2021. Earlier honors include First Prize in Louisiana Contemporary at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (2014) and the Critic’s Choice Award from the Dallas Visual Arts Center (2001). Finch holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and a BFA from Louisiana State University, and he has participated in residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

This exhibition is presented alongside the latest works from Leslie Elliottsmith & Kelly Anne Mueller. All works from these artists are on view, free of charge, during regular gallery hours (12 - 6 p.m., Tue - Sun) from Sep 26 - Oct 26, 2025.