Sean Ware
We are thrilled to collaborate with the new Todd Bonita Gallery, located at 39 Ceres St., in downtown Portsmouth, NH for a very special Pop-Up Exhibition featuring new paintings by Sean Ware! Exhibition runs June 3 - July 9.
Gallery Hours: Sun - Thurs: 11-5 • Fri - Sat: 11-7
OPENING RECEPTION: June 3, 5-8pm
LOCATION: Todd Bonita Gallery, 39 Ceres St., Portsmouth
Gallery Hours: Sun - Thurs: 11-5 • Fri - Sat: 11-7
OPENING RECEPTION: June 3, 5-8pm
LOCATION: Todd Bonita Gallery, 39 Ceres St., Portsmouth
Whether it’s fading light, passing storms or growing weeds, there’s a steady change in nature. I look at my everyday surroundings, watch this cycle, and enjoy finding something new in a familiar thing. It’s the surprise of variation from the routine.
These changing moments are what first drew me to the landscape as a subject. With these interests as a constant occurrence in my work, I’ve set aside straightforward observation and started using the landscape more as a point of departure than for true reference. Recently, I’ve found it more important to see and understand a space in more than one way, putting my accumulated vocabulary of the everyday world to use in invention. My paintings now respond rather than simply record, taking recognizable details of the landscape and focusing on reevaluating them. It’s an exciting process of trying to fit the world into a new framework and having it buck back.
This shift from a largely perceptual approach to a combination of memory, imagination, and observation means dividing my time between the studio and the outdoors. Creating has become a balancing act of often dissimilar methods: alla prima plein air painting, large studio painting, and printmaking, each prompting and informing the others. At all times, I rely on the translation that these processes provide, letting the materials assume partial control of the final image. ~ Sean Ware
These changing moments are what first drew me to the landscape as a subject. With these interests as a constant occurrence in my work, I’ve set aside straightforward observation and started using the landscape more as a point of departure than for true reference. Recently, I’ve found it more important to see and understand a space in more than one way, putting my accumulated vocabulary of the everyday world to use in invention. My paintings now respond rather than simply record, taking recognizable details of the landscape and focusing on reevaluating them. It’s an exciting process of trying to fit the world into a new framework and having it buck back.
This shift from a largely perceptual approach to a combination of memory, imagination, and observation means dividing my time between the studio and the outdoors. Creating has become a balancing act of often dissimilar methods: alla prima plein air painting, large studio painting, and printmaking, each prompting and informing the others. At all times, I rely on the translation that these processes provide, letting the materials assume partial control of the final image. ~ Sean Ware
PAST EXHIBITION: 'Everything Illuminated'
June 13th- July 26th, 2015
June 13th- July 26th, 2015
PAST EXHIBITION
ARTIST STATEMENT:
My work is a balance of thoughtful observation, memory, and ample invention, drawing information from a variety of sources. It focuses on the relationships between landscape and architecture, surveying human presence and community from a distance. By sharing these personal perspectives, the landscape is opened to be reexamined with a fresh interest.
I divide my time working between the studio and the outdoors, painting en plein air. Trained as a potter as well as a painter, I have a special appreciation for the material and process of creation. My paintings explore this concept through the formal aspects of paint, testing and manipulating its properties. I rely on the translation of process in all of my work, letting the materials assume partial control of the final image. This frees me to have a greater variety of mark, playing with edges and textures. I explore this in my paintings by searching for a conflicted image, as the surface vibrates between the deep space of the landscape and the carefully fashioned paint.
My work is a balance of thoughtful observation, memory, and ample invention, drawing information from a variety of sources. It focuses on the relationships between landscape and architecture, surveying human presence and community from a distance. By sharing these personal perspectives, the landscape is opened to be reexamined with a fresh interest.
I divide my time working between the studio and the outdoors, painting en plein air. Trained as a potter as well as a painter, I have a special appreciation for the material and process of creation. My paintings explore this concept through the formal aspects of paint, testing and manipulating its properties. I rely on the translation of process in all of my work, letting the materials assume partial control of the final image. This frees me to have a greater variety of mark, playing with edges and textures. I explore this in my paintings by searching for a conflicted image, as the surface vibrates between the deep space of the landscape and the carefully fashioned paint.
ARTIST BIO:
Originally from Lexington, Kentucky, Sean Ware lives and paints in the New Hampshire Seacoast.
Originally from Lexington, Kentucky, Sean Ware lives and paints in the New Hampshire Seacoast.
Please contact Drift Gallery at 603-379-6560 to inquire about availability.