Sean Matthews's Page
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Sean Matthews's Page
Profile Information
- Relationship status
- married
- College / University
- Appalachian State University, Towson University
- Program
- BFA Studio, MFA Studio
- Member type
- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Installation, Sculpture
- I am...
- I am a husband, father, sculptor, and lecturer. I work in many mediums from paper to steel. I love blue jeans, white t-shirts, and steel-toe boots. I have a beard, long hair, and tattoos, and my students say I don't look like a teacher. I am a co founder of an incredible artist studio in Boone, NC, the Collective on Depot.
- About my artwork
- My sculpture is inspired by ancient civilizations, world religions, and primitive art. My work revolves around the altar and its infinite forms. I explore the similarities between the altar and the object, and ask the viewer to personally determine the difference between the two. Form and craftsmanship is very important to me, and I believe beauty in art is an extension of God. (Check out my flickr site for pics of my work)
- Artists I like
- Doris Salcedo, Jannis Kounellis, Joseph Beuys, David Ireland, Joseph Cornell, Anish Kapoor, Doh Ho Suh, Donald Judd, Ann Hamilton, Picasso's sculpture, Lee Mingwei, Patrick Hall, Geoffry Bartlett, Uijin Park, Katie Park, Adam Adcock, Anthony Cervino, David Page, and all the artists in The Collective.
- Interests
- Art, religion, horror movies, domestic beer, archery, vintage recurve bows, and my two beautiful daughters.
- What exhibitions are good at the moment?
- PS1 was pretty captivating and Socrates Park is always interesting. I'm not that interested in Jeff Koons, but his work on top of the Met was pretty amazing.
- The centre of the artworld is
- my studio, online
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The easiest way is to just make new versions of your images in Photoshop, just change the image size to 560 wide, click the 'constrin proportions' and 'resample image' boxes and the proportion will be correct by default. Your page will also load faster :)
http://www.artreview.com/photo/photo/show?id=1474022%3APhoto%3A435828&context=user
Annoyingly galleries don't share our enthusiasm. Thanks for your comment.
I got this message right away. I'll be looking tonight after I'm done teaching casting and modeling.
Can you read or send ANY messages? I think everyone's messages have gone for a walk.
I'll have to try and get back to you when I've looked through your Flickr site - probably over the weekend. I'm afraid I've run out of time tonight - too much on with all the teaching at the moment I'm afraid. I guess you know how that is?
Catch you later.
Mik
I've had a good look through the work you've posted here (though admittedly not your Flickr site - do flag something up if you feel I ought not miss it) which I found very interesting - you have an obvious eastern influence to your aesthetic.
Actually your interest in altars kind of connects to something I was working on until about five years ago, a couple of examples of which I have on another site (see here and here)
the first part of a fairly large body of paintings looking at ideas of and from altarpieces (yeah - not the same as altars, but close); the second a slight tangent from that - though also from a body of several works - after seeing - and being totally gobsmacked by - a retrospective show of James Lee Byars in Hanover, Germany, having never heard of him before (I must have led a very sheltered life).
I've moved away from those concerns, as my Silesia project hit me and whisked me away, but I imagine I will return to thoughts on altarpieces at some stage - though probably very differently.
Anyway, good stuff, and nice use of materials... And you've been in touch with Lewthwaite too - at this rate we'll have to make you an honorary Nottingham Artist!
By the way - I probably look every inch an art-lecturer, though I've given up on the shaved head look these days - I've got used to the idea of living up to the stereotype... well maybe a little. They keep asking me things like what music I listen to, but I don't tell 'em these days - it might frighten them!
Cheers, Mik
Nice kit - I'll have a proper look in a bit - it's pub time for me at the moment.
Cheers, Mik
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