Friday, October 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM to Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Art Bug Gallery, Unit B
Scott Roberts Projects is pleased to announce their inaugural exhibition, featuring works by Sedgwick Guth. In his Los Angeles debut, Guth presents 12 mixed media paintings, saturated in color and utilizing the folk art traditions of his Pennsylvania Dutch heritage to create monumental portraits that weave a world of mythology, intimacy, and personal reinvention. Guth’s recent work evolved from his experience as a Queer artist exploring the realm of technology and social media, a land with no rule book. As an observer from the outside looking in, and yet participating in some of the modern rituals, his work explores his place amongst modernity as well as his reinterpretation of the motifs and Protestant symbolism dominant in his Pennsylvania Dutch heritage. The inclusion of embroidery and sewing in his work is a nod to familial Pennsylvania Dutch craft and tradition, such as taufscheine frakturs (a colorful, decorative folk art form traditionally featuring religious, biblical, or nature-based imagery), and mourning embroideries from the early 19th century. Creating his own personal folklore that draws upon astrology and Greek mythology, as well as his own navigation of romantic and platonic love, sexual capital, spiritualism, and definition of family. In these 12 works, Guth creates gentle and mystical environments for his subjects in which he presents the story of the ‘everyman,’ with his subjects as proxies amongst flowers, stars, and mystical symbols, ready to be interpreted and experienced. Sedgwick Guth: Someday I May Know You Very Well explores mystical spaces of embroidery, color, and esoteric traditions. The exhibition is on view Oct. 3 through Oct 30, 2025.