Author Archive
23 July 2006 by sean slemon
Thomas! We Demand something new.
With his own brand of printed wallpaper (the pattern extracted from one of his photographs), Thomas Demand darkened the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens in London this summer. Each room a busy dark hue of green interfering with your vision in the same way that a chain link fence does: making us struggle to see […]
30 June 2006 by sean slemon
Contour: The Definitive Line
At Schedler Minchin Fine Art– A show that I am currently featured on in Birmingham, Alabama: curated by Jon Coffelt
20 June 2006 by sean slemon
Solid Light opens at David Krut Arts Resource
Solid Light by Sean Slemon at David Krut Arts Resource opens on 22 June at 18:00 @ 140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood. Lightness and Beingby nathaniel stern Sean Slemon’s latest body of work strikes an almost sublime balance between the frivolous, and the momentous. Both a departure from, and continuation of, his last series – […]
16 May 2006 by sean slemon
A memorial to Street Trees
Yes its finally coming togetherAlbeit very slowly, but I’m getting there. Today – only two days before I leave for South Africa, on a trip home to see family and friends and make some new work, I got all the bureaucracy and logistics in line to take out 8 dead street trees. After months of […]
11 May 2006 by sean slemon
Whitney: Part too
Over the last few days, I have been doing research further reading into the current Whitney biennial. There have been a few things I have noticed, from going to the show, reading and figuring out the catalogue and looking at various reviews and interviews with the curators before and after the exhibition. Over all the […]
08 May 2006 by sean slemon