Scout Invie: No Place Like Home
Born in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and based in Salt Lake City, Utah, Scout Invie explores the American West through textile design, performance, and multimedia artworks. Her work traces the region鈥檚 evolving identity鈥攊ts unraveling climate, global entanglements, and mythos. Drawing from her background in one of America鈥檚 most affluent communities with extreme wealth disparity, Invie confronts the West as both dream and mirage.
Scout鈥檚 sewn costumes reference Western wear鈥檚 iconic legacy, especially the tailored extravagance of Nudie Suits鈥攔hinestone-studded designs worn by country music legends as symbols of success and spectacle. By incorporating meticulously crafted pieces with canvas, rhinestones, and glitter, Invie elevates her costumes as a critical form of contemporary art. Her works exist at the intersection of fine art, fashion, and identity construction.
Through playful yet incisive aesthetic choices, Invie explores how Western iconography, extreme wealth, and pop culture merge. Ruby boots echo Dorothy鈥檚 slippers, drawing a parallel between two mythic American journeys鈥擮z and the West鈥攂oth grounded in the fantasy of transformation and the desire to return home.
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Born in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and based in Salt Lake City, Utah, Scout Invie explores the American West through textile design, performance, and multimedia artworks. Her work traces the region鈥檚 evolving identity鈥攊ts unraveling climate, global entanglements, and mythos. Drawing from her background in one of America鈥檚 most affluent communities with extreme wealth disparity, Invie confronts the West as both dream and mirage.
Scout鈥檚 sewn costumes reference Western wear鈥檚 iconic legacy, especially the tailored extravagance of Nudie Suits鈥攔hinestone-studded designs worn by country music legends as symbols of success and spectacle. By incorporating meticulously crafted pieces with canvas, rhinestones, and glitter, Invie elevates her costumes as a critical form of contemporary art. Her works exist at the intersection of fine art, fashion, and identity construction.
Through playful yet incisive aesthetic choices, Invie explores how Western iconography, extreme wealth, and pop culture merge. Ruby boots echo Dorothy鈥檚 slippers, drawing a parallel between two mythic American journeys鈥擮z and the West鈥攂oth grounded in the fantasy of transformation and the desire to return home.
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