Bio:
Sean Slaney is a multidisciplinary artist who is part of the new downtown East Village art scene in New York City. In addition to his fine art practice, Slaney follows a long line of artists who got their start as commercial artists working in window display: creating murals, sculptures and installations for luxury department stores. A self proclaimed “art nerd” traveling the world to experience it’s masterpieces first hand, his work is influenced by the history of art and its many movements filtered through his wit, child like sense of play, sarcasm, and natural brutality culminating in his own brand of Post Pop Art.
Artist statement:
My painting and sculpture are an exploration of the interplay of styles past and present, from prehistoric sculpture through the renaissance to the contemporary art of today . Previously an urban neo-pop painter, having moved to a cottage in Upstate, NY, inspired by my new surroundings - nature, and even “Mr. Potato Head” parts found in the underbrush of my backyard - my current work had become free, gestural and tactile; a hybrid of 2D and 3D utilizing mixed media, paint and sculptural parts on cut shaped wood, attempting to create my own visual language that is familiar yet strange.