Scout Cuomo is a painter and maker based in Western Massachusetts.

Her paintings are built in layers of pigments — water, swimmers, light breaking at the surface and dissolving below it. The figures in her work aren't posed. They're moving through something: a current, a threshold, a moment of submersion where the body and the landscape stop being separate things. She has been painting water long enough to know it as a place rather than a subject.

Her second body of work begins with a different material: recycled PETG plastic, 3D printed into ornate frames and mirrors and finished by hand with ground mineral pigments. The question underneath this work is simple — what happens when you treat a throwaway material with the same seriousness once reserved for precious metals and stone?