Mindscape Series

Always returning 2009, 91x121cm acrylic and ink on gessoed canvas

70x100cm

WIP 70x100cm 2026













WIP 2026 

From 2004-onward, Mindscape series and  New Horizon (Failed Attempt at Straight Lines)
Research conducted while living in Los Angeles and travelling to visit family in Northern California and the rugged West of Ireland, this series of mixed media drawing/paintings using ink and acrylic on canvas and paper mark these travels. From aerial perspective  views from Griffith Park to the views above and amogst clouds travelling to Ireland, and continuing with observations living in Rome with the many layers or stratification of the ancient, medieval and contemporary city. The surface is approached by either drawing obsessive detail upon detail or with one horizontal line across the entire canvas. This element is repeated over and over again across the picture plane.  Slight variations in the movement of the hand add to the pattern as each additional line is recorded.  The repetitive process refers to the interactive relationship between mountain ranges and urban sprawl as well as the influence of artists and designers from Cy Twombly, Mark Bradford, Agnes Martin to Peter Saville.  The works begin with a failed attempt to draw a straight line, then this failed attempt is followed until the end of the canvas or paper.

Education
1999 MFA Art, California Institute of the Arts, CalArts
Valencia, Ca

1995 BFA Drawing & Painting / Intermedia, California State University Long Beach, Ca

Awards
2007 Armory Center for the Arts Teaching Fellowship
Pasadena, Ca 

Selected exhibitions

Solo shows

2023 “ Last of the West”  Palazzo Pichi Roma curated
by Fabio Sindici

2013 “Four Drawings by Sean Gall” Unlikely Stories

2009 “Atmospheres and Mindscapes” Project 210 Gallery Pasadena, California

1999 “Just Kickin’ It” MFA Thesis Show, California Institute of the Arts, CalArts

Art Fairs:
2018 Studio Lisboa 018, Lisbon, Portugal

Group shows:
2020 “DotSandPlastic” Tbilisi, Georgia (postponed)
 
2019 “DotSandPlastic” Madrid, Spain

2014 “Esultarte” Galleria Palazzo Velli, Rome, Italy

2013 “Letting Go” Hermon La Prada’s International Flat Files, Los Angeles

2011 “Tomkins Project West: Works on Paper” Dan Graham Gallery, Los Angeles

2010 “Mastodon Maze” Mastodon Mesa, Los Angeles

2009 “S(t)ay” Sumer Camp’s Project Projects, Los Angeles

2008 “Staff Show” Los Angeles County Museum of Art

2007 "Natural Geographic" Norma Desmond Productions, Culver City

2006 “Compari, this show was not sponsored by” Park Projects, Los Angeles. Curated by Luciano Perna

2006 “Staff Show” Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Bibliography:



TBC/MAG 1 The Billboard Creative
November, 2018
https://tbc.shorthandstories.com/issue1/index.html

An integral aspect to Sean Gall’s art practice is walking, exploring and getting lost. Whether in his previous home in Los Angeles, his mother’s home in the wild western landscape of Co. Galway, Ireland, or his adopted city of Rome, he utilizes wandering as a stimulus in his artistic research.


Mindscape Series mixes elements on canvas and paper, they are made of drawn ink and painted patterns. This series considers  themes of urban sprawl mixed with formal elements in a dreamlike manner. 



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