Blog: The Sean Show

I've Waited In Turn, I've Waited In Line

Apr 13, 2009, 9:10am The Sean Show
Róisín Murphy - "You Know Me Better"
Gloriously well-styled magic moving commercial from Roisin Murphy . I've got a shit ton of new art I need to scan + present to you people. Pretty sure you'll dig it, and failing that, I'll convince you I'm an effin' genius anyway. Cuz that's how we do.
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Plates, Spinning

Apr 1, 2009, 7:31pm The Sean Show
I owe you crazy kids some art, and I've been slacking there. I'm prepping for a lot that happens in May, and so I'm working on working diligently, breaking up a shit ton of work down into manageable parcels. Here's a list of what's happening in the near future: Pink-a-Palooza Auction benefiting breast cancer awareness. Friday, May 8 8600 Foundry St Suite 217A • Savage, MD 20763 http://www.jillhackney.com ArtDC 123x123 show Saturday, May 16 - Saturday, June 6 [...]
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033009: Maneki-Neko 01

Mar 30, 2009, 4:14pm The Sean Show
033009: Maneki-Neko 01 Maneki-Neko 01, 2009, Ink on archival paper affixed to pressboard, 83x103. Please contact sw(at)secretworm(dot)com for pricing. This piece turned out well, but the delicate line work along the sides was ridiculously time-consuming. Anyhow, I love the lil' fella, and I'm almost certainly going to do more. No time to really really, so enjoy today's Sonic Fix : Darren Keen - Rainbow
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Artist:Darren Keen
Title:Rainbow
Link Text:Rainbow
File Name:033009darren_keen_rainbow.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps

032608: Matryoshka 08

Mar 26, 2009, 3:36pm The Sean Show
032608: Matryoshka 08 Matryoshka 08, 2009, Ink on archival paper affixed to pressboard, 5″x7″. Contact sw(at)secretworm(dot)com for purchasing info. The last matryoshka girl I'm doing for a while, and she turned out pretty rad. I'm really digging the way that the patterns play with and against one another. Another thing I'm sorta loving it that the flaws are evident, but that they add to the overall look, lending a charm that I couldn't easily fabricate using digital tools. Today's Sonic Fix is from a lovely Swedish band referencing one of my [...]
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Artist:The Pale Corners
Title:Steve Buscemi
Link Text:Steve Buscemi
File Name:032609pale_corners_steve_busce mi.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2008

032509: Matryoshka 07

Mar 25, 2009, 12:51pm The Sean Show
032509: Matryoshka 07 Matryoshka 07, 2009, Ink on archival paper affixed to pressboard, 5″x7″. Contact sw(at)secretworm(dot)com for purchasing info. Last night I remembered another tangential reference to matryoshka dolls . Wikipedia provides a concise explanation of Rebis , a character from Grant Morrison's groundbreaking run on Doom Patrol (emphasis mine): The Negative Spirit later leaves Vostok and returns to Trainor, where it reveals itself to be amoral, intelligent, and capable of speech. Trainor pleads with it to leave him alone, but it forcefully merges itself with [...]
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Artist:Sandy Kerr
Title:Thug Rock
Link Text:Sandy Kerr - Thug Rock
File Name:092509SKerr_thugrock.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps

032409: Matryoshka 06

Mar 24, 2009, 2:47pm The Sean Show
032409: Matryoshka 06 Matryoshka 06, 2009, Ink on archival paper affixed to pressboard, 53x73. Contact sw(at)secretworm(dot)com for purchasing info. Another daily illustration. Matryoshkas (matryoshkae?) remind me of my grandmother and nod towards my Russian heritage. I think I may do a couple more of these girls before I retire it for a while. Not that I don't like doing them, but I don't want it to become stale. I'm liable to return to them at some point, but I also want to knock out some sugar skulls, some daruma dolls, some monoko-neki. Wait and [...]
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Artist:The Boy Least Likely To
Title:Saddle Up
Link Text:Saddle Up
File Name:032409TBLLT_saddle.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2008

032309: Matryoshka 05

Mar 23, 2009, 9:41pm The Sean Show
032309: Matryoshka 05 Matryoshka 05, 2009, Ink on archival paper affixed to pressboard, 53x73. Contact sw(at)secretworm(dot)com for purchase info. So I did four matryoshkas for my show at R.Coury Fine Art , and they were among the best received of the collection. I knew then that I had hit on some vein of insight, something that appealed to people's sense of "oh cool!", and I planned to mine it for all it was worth. So this is the fifth, and I'm pretty pleased with how our girl turned out. Between start [...]
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Artist:Beirut
Title:Venice
Link Text:Venice
File Name:032309beirut_venice.mp3
Bitrate:202 kbps
Year:2009

X Tonite

Mar 21, 2009, 11:31am The Sean Show
X Tonite Come on out, y'all. The show ought to be pretty bad ass. I'm drawing alien Bond Girls and astronauts! Prepare to be dazzled as Cargo Cult makes live art for real!
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The Plan, or How I'm Not Gonna Go Bankrupt In A Crap Economy.

Mar 19, 2009, 2:15pm The Sean Show
I've been re-thinking how I make art, how to sell it, where to go next. Some things I've come up with: 01. I've learned to cut my costs dramatically, learned to work faster. Taking a month to crank out a single digital piece is all fine and well, but then I'm losing money to get it done. I still incorporate software tools, but the actual impact is more subtle these days. 02. A bunch of little pieces that sell are worth more a single big one sitting in my house. In a down economy, [...]
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Live Art Show: X @ be bar WDC, March 21 2009

Mar 18, 2009, 12:47pm The Sean Show
Live Art Show: X @ be bar WDC, March 21 2009 Art happening event X is best described in its Facebook Group : The intention of X is to establish a LIVE and ONLINE art happening that brings artists and creatives out of their studios and into the public art collaborative, allowing the environment to affect and impact their work and process. Alrightie then. My friends and I have formed Cargo Cult ...remember that?...and we're painting/drawng/etching/pastin g our way to something awesome in the period of four hours. It oughta be rad, kids. Come on out to see! [...]
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Changes are A-Comin'…

Mar 18, 2009, 11:07am The Sean Show
Changes are A-Comin'… Sugar 04/Snake Eyes, 2009, Ink on archival paper affixed to pressboard, 83x83, available for sale through R.Coury Fine Arts . New layout, and updates on the regular. Sidebar is the start, and I'm working on a new skin for the 'Show. This week is sick busy, between work, pimping out my two shows (WTF?!?!) this weekend, and trying to make time for Skips. So while I may not start regularly putting it out there again regularly until next week, I'm trying to work out a whole new approach to how I work, how [...]
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Upcoming Show: March 20th, R. Coury Fine Art Gallery

Mar 12, 2009, 8:45am The Sean Show
Upcoming Show: March 20th, R. Coury Fine Art Gallery I'm in love with this space, and my friend Jill Hackney has been very gracious is hosting my work. You should come, and you should bring interesting friends.
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the lay of the land + what feels right.

Mar 12, 2009, 8:43am The Sean Show
the lay of the land + what feels right. Sugar 04/Snake Eyes, 2009, Ink on paper affixed to pressboard, 83x83. Available for purchase through the R.Coury Fine Art Gallery . More new art can be found on my flickr, which I almost exclusively use as a portfolio. Check it out here. I've been working with a more loose, more simple style lately-pretty straightforward illustrations done in pen, quickly to keep the energy that inspired it in the first place. I'm working on some new ideas to keep the whole thing fresh. Among them is the [...]
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Cargo Cult Tee Design

Mar 4, 2009, 1:52pm The Sean Show
Cargo Cult Tee Design Digital tomfoolery, using mashed-up stock splatters and a series of competing halftones for depth. The phrase is lifted from a Justice song. LMK whatcha think. P.S. I have a ton of new stuff I need to scan + update, but I haven't made time. This is not the new art I mentioned a few days back. Perhaps tomorrow...who knows? Stay tuned.
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New Stuff Ahead.

Feb 26, 2009, 5:50pm The Sean Show
Yes, I'm thiiiiiiiiiis close to finishing some bitchin' new artfaggotry. When I do, the fifteen of you who still read the 'Show will be the first to see it. Gimme til Monday. Then prepare to be dazzled. -sw
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WIP 011409

Jan 14, 2009, 8:49am The Sean Show
01. Made pretty awesome headway on a grouping of pieces yesterday, deciding to call the character St. Teresa, more or less after the notions I had mashed together about two different saints: Therese of Lisieux and Teresa of Avila . I often confuse the two despite knowing that they are entirely different figures in the Catholic canon. Saints absolutely fascinate me, as they're religious proto-superheroes. 02. This mixed media stuff I'm working through right now isn't a permanent departure from digital work. I still love so-called new media, and I'm still working on some stuff [...]
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Artist:Winterlight
Title:Leaving Song
Link Text:Leaving Song
File Name:011409winterlight.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2008

WIP 010709: I Confess To Be The Deputy Of Love

Jan 7, 2009, 10:26am The Sean Show
01. The reception for my Four Characters mixed media art show is tonite. One more time: 6-9 pm, Dahlak (1771 U St NW WDC). I'm showing off, predictably, four characters: The Atomic Heavyweight, King on a Shoestring, Luchador and Elsa Charm, Agent of A.N.A.R.C.H.Y. Lots of rad people signed up to show via Facebook, and so I'm guessing it'll be pretty effin' awesome. DJ and friend A-Ron will be spinning sweet, sweet music for your earholes. 02. Sean + Marvin + Keenan + Jameson = so hung over I can hardly stand [...]
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Artist:BC Crew
Title:The Deputy
Link Text:The Deputy by BC Crew
File Name:010709bccrew.mp3

Work in Progress 01.06.09

Jan 6, 2009, 2:29pm The Sean Show
Work in Progress 01.06.09 01. Artist and friend Sherill Anne Gross made the above Pinup , which incorporates more than 6000 pieces of hand-cut paper for the shag carpeting. Obsessive but awesome. 02. Recent Twitters, in no particular order: @mattfraction : " my career has more fathers than anna nicole smith's baby." @secretworm: " Hello, plate of extra crispy bacon! Good-bye unclogged arteries!" 03. Reception for my Four Characters show is tomorrow. Many of the cool kids will be making an appearance. Big ups to The New [...]
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Artist:De La Soul
Title:A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"
Link Text:A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays
File Name:010609_delasoul.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps

Work in Progress 01.05.07

Jan 5, 2009, 10:09pm The Sean Show
Work in Progress 01.05.07 01. Pasted up 9 wood panels with book and magazine fragments. Curing overnight so that I can paint and scratch and draw across their surface. 02. Definite ideas for one foursome: working title is now Nervetown. Let's see if that sticks, though how I work means I've already got titles for the pieces: Lacunae Filled With Dust , Shaft of Long Bones , Weak Acids and Alkalis , and Heller, Meaning Lighter . Pretty sure I have this locked down, meaning it ought to bang itself out quickly. Used An Atlas [...]
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Artist:Thunder Power
Title:(Why Don't You Go) Take a Hike?
Link Text:Thunder Power - (Why Dont You) Go Take A Hike?
File Name:010509TP_hike.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Artist:Thunder Power
Title:Lucky to Be Alive
Link Text:Thunder Power - Lucky To Be Alive
File Name:010509TP_lucky.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Artist:Thunder Power
Title:Your Pantry
Link Text:Thunder Power - Your Pantry
File Name:010509TP_pantry.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps

Four Characters Show, January 7 2009

Jan 5, 2009, 10:03am The Sean Show
Four Characters Show, January 7 2009 Flyer pop for my show this Wednesday. You ought to come out.
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