About >

“I approach drawing and printmaking as a recording process akin to and inspired by early photography and musical recordings. These early recordings allow us to not only experience the intention of the makers, what they thought, how they felt, their ideas and structure, but also the errant details of the atmospheric conditions in which they were made - those marks beyond their control. Together, the limitation of technology and the weight of time produce artifacts of otherworldly tone and mystery. The process I employ attempts to invite similar unknowns. The drawings themselves are relatively simple in structure and execution. They are made quickly with a ballpoint pen, a ruler, and a homemade version of large scale carbon paper (oil stick applied to paper). The result is a transfer process that ‘records’ in oil paint, not only the intended lines of the drawing, the ideas themselves, but just as importantly, the unpredictable marks of chance.”

Exhibition History >

Sean Sullivan

b. 1975 Bronx, NY

Lives and works in the Hudson Valley, NY.

Selected Exhibitions

Selected One and Two Person Exhibitions

Recent work - Sean Sullivan and Spencer Shakespeare - BDDW Annex Gallery - New York, NY

String Figures - with Christoph Schellberg - A collaboration between Markus Luttgen Gallery and Linn Luhn Gallery - Dusseldorf, Germany

à ùne éa - Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY

WEST / END / BLUES - 57w57Arts, New York, NY

Ubbe & Sacco - 510 Warren Street Gallery, Hudson, NY

Sunset, Saudade Station - Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, IL

Son of a Son of a Son - KMOCA Kingston, NY

In Our Recreation - Sawkille Co. Rhinebeck, NY

Lost on Roads - Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints Kingston, NY

Sentimento - KMOCA Kingston, NY

I’ll cover lights, You make getaway - No Space Gallery Rosendale, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

Sanctuary - City Hall - Kingston, NY

Radius 50 - WAAM - Curated by Cathleen Chaffee - Woodstock, NY

sun is setting / faith in strangers - (Jose Cabaco, Sky Glabush, Hernan Paganini, David Ryan, Sean Sullivan, Linne Urbye, Allison Wade) - Devening Projects - Chicago, IL - Curator

Hyper School - Big Medium - Curated by Max Manning, Austin, TX

Museum for Drawing - Ute Parduhn Gallery - Dusseldorf, Germany

Mon Oncle - Museum for Drawing - Hunningen, Belgium

We’ll turn Manhattan into an island of joy - Markus Luttgen Gallery, Cologne, Germany

Object and Influence - Hygienic Gallery - Curated by Jason Silva, New London, CT

Worlds of Wonder - Hudson Valley Artists 2014 at The Samuel Dorsky Museum Of Art at SUNY New Paltz - Curated by Ian Berry