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Sean Hopp |
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Contact Information: |
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website: www.mathbat.com/art |
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Artist Statement: |
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My recent paintings are a series of portraits from a warped hallucination, as seen through the filters of psychology, religion, and the occult. They are visual thought experiments focused on the transcendence of horror, the beauty of distortion, and the inherent grace of the mutant. My portrait subjects often have deformed body parts, multiple heads and eyes, or additional limbs. They are stretched and mutilated, but have achieved a superb state of spirituality as a result. They have attained wisdom through their deformity, and I have depicted them in this form as transcendent ghosts. I try to balance my painting style somewhere between representation and abstraction, somewhere between classical and modern. I work with a combination of oils, acrylics, varnishes, and inks, and apply them onto surfaces like wood, canvas board, and masonite. I paint with both hands, use my fingers, brushes, and other tools, and incorporate the unavoidable texture of dust and cat hair into most of the paintings. Each painting has a number of layers of paint and glaze, and takes anywhere between a week to several months to complete. |
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