Sean Morgan (IRL Exhibition)
| Date | 01.19.18 |
| Time | 7pm–11pm |
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| Admission | Free |
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| Associated Program | Welcome to my Homepage · IRL |
IRL and Welcome to my Homepage present an IRL exhibition by Sean Morgan.
Project Description
Works on view will include new multimedia sculptures and animations created concurrently with Morgan's stay at the Welcome to my Homepage Digital Artist Residency.
"My studio practice is based in how behavior is manipulated by designed physical and social environments: like how a city can be designed for its residents to be happy, or how a crime boss uses language to maintain power in a criminal hierarchy. I create fictional satires of these environments, attempting to extract specific phenomena or behavior from the people, objects, and things that occupy them.
I start each piece with a drawing or object that is then photographed or scanned to be altered in Photoshop or a 3D modeling program. In my recent work, final products exist through a digital format like a projector, electronic display screen, or digital file. The work that exists in an intangible medium, like a .jpeg, gives it an accessibility beyond what a formal presentation in a gallery could present. The digital file allows for implementation of the art to be equalized and consumable through Instagram, printed in the ads of a free local newspaper, or on a TV. These methods of presenting the environments force them to become a two-dimensional image, making them diagrammatic. When they become a diagram they become something like a manual, allowing me to understand and expand on them."
Artist Bio
"I am originally from Dallas, Texas but in 2016 moved to New York City. After having trouble affording sculptures supplies and a studio space I turned to 3D Modeling to make sculptures. Since this time I have fallen in love with the endless inexpensive possibilities of digital mediums."
