Sean Landers
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Works
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Sean LandersNo, No, No (Red Fox)2024Oil on linen36 x 42 in. (91.4 x 106.7 cm)
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Sean LandersTo Live (Cottontail Rabbit)2024Oil on linen34 x 28 in. (86.4 x 71.1 cm)
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Sean Landers100 Year Storm (Clogher head, Ireland)2022Oil on linen58 x 76 in. (147.5 x 193 cm)
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Sean LandersChocolate Lab2022Oil on linen39 x 33 in. (99 x 84 cm)
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Sean LandersYellow Lab2022Oil on linen39 x 33 in. (99 x 84 cm)
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Biography
I am first and foremost an artist, but I have always felt part writer in my mind.
Sean Landers (b. 1962, Palmer, Massachusetts) is a painter and multimedia artist who lives and works in New York City. After pursuing a BFA from Philadelphia College of Art, he received his MFA from Yale University School of Art in 1986. His practice spans such diverse modes of expression as painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and film, among others. Critically acclaimed for his conceptual approach to painting, he draws alternately from his life experience and canonical references. The artist leverages an arsenal of idiosyncratic characters and wry platitudes that resonate with personal significance. Landers’s diaristic, text-based paintings were instrumental in defining the art landscape of the 1990s, and he has continued to employ text throughout his career, both alone and in darkly poetic conversation with his subjects.
In recent years, Landers has shifted his practice to sardonic critiques of the ongoing climate crisis. He maroons sailors, clowns, and animals both wild and domesticated in stirring depictions of natural disasters. In the tradition of Winslow Homer and Thomas Cole, these devastating wildfires and tumultuous seas signal the omnipotence of nature and articulate our collective anxieties. Deeply empathetic, Landers’s figuration shines a searing light on his—and exposes our own—struggles to stay abreast of the often absurd reality of everyday life.
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News
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Sean Landers Joins Timothy Taylor
9 November 2023Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce the representation of Sean Landers in London. The gallery will present an exhibition of new work by the artist...Read More -
Sean Landers: Animal Kingdom
Le Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature 17 October 2023This exhibition marks Sean Landers's return to France at Le Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature. On view through 10 March 2024, Sean...Read More
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