S E A´N G A L L BIO
Photo Credit: Lluc Queralt Baiges
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
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
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
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 my art practice is walking, exploring and getting lost.
Whether in my previous home in Los Angeles, my mother’s home in the wild western
landscape of Co. Galway, Ireland, or my adopted city of Rome, I utilize wandering as a
stimulus for visualizing ideas.
My “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 to accompany or be reactions to the melodic sounds of Brian Eno’s Homage to The Apollo moon mission, “Atmospheres and Landscapes”. Many works in this series take their titles from Eno’s album as an homage to him.
My series Damnatio Memoriae is a collection of abstracted text works conceived after many months of meandering Rome’s neighborhoods and observing graffiti of opposing political parties and football clubs, altered to obscure or change their original, intended meaning.
I felt these contemporary alterations evoked the ancient custom known as Damnatio Memoriae, an ancient Roman practice wherein inscriptions, sculptures, and even civilizations in the case of Carthage, were wiped away by an opponent and erased from memory. Roman leaders who fell out of power found their name chiseled from public inscriptions and their likeness on marble busts morphed into their successor, but with enough of the original left to serve as a public reminder of their ruination.
I borrow from these altered graffiti and inscriptions, both ancient and contemporary, by drawing text of idioms that I have heard, read, or have written. The text is abstracted, but still legible, through the use of formal elements of color and shape that creates a web of flora that mimics ancient damnatio memoriae and sometimes juxtaposes a message of ruin with elements of beauty.
For sales, commissions, collaborations and inquiries:
seangall22@gmail.com
+39 327 001 9502
My “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 to accompany or be reactions to the melodic sounds of Brian Eno’s Homage to The Apollo moon mission, “Atmospheres and Landscapes”. Many works in this series take their titles from Eno’s album as an homage to him.
My series Damnatio Memoriae is a collection of abstracted text works conceived after many months of meandering Rome’s neighborhoods and observing graffiti of opposing political parties and football clubs, altered to obscure or change their original, intended meaning.
I felt these contemporary alterations evoked the ancient custom known as Damnatio Memoriae, an ancient Roman practice wherein inscriptions, sculptures, and even civilizations in the case of Carthage, were wiped away by an opponent and erased from memory. Roman leaders who fell out of power found their name chiseled from public inscriptions and their likeness on marble busts morphed into their successor, but with enough of the original left to serve as a public reminder of their ruination.
I borrow from these altered graffiti and inscriptions, both ancient and contemporary, by drawing text of idioms that I have heard, read, or have written. The text is abstracted, but still legible, through the use of formal elements of color and shape that creates a web of flora that mimics ancient damnatio memoriae and sometimes juxtaposes a message of ruin with elements of beauty.
For sales, commissions, collaborations and inquiries:
seangall22@gmail.com
+39 327 001 9502