The Widows of Gaza Painting

b. Brooklyn, New York City, 1966 ---- I'm SEQ, an expressive draughtsman, figurative painter and sculptor. I've studied the classical disciplines at Pratt Institute and the Clarence Muse School, commercial illustration at the New York High School of Art and Design and painting with Kingsborough Community College's Fine Arts department. Much of my art explores the fragility of emotional memory; loss and the hidden dialogues of individuals standing apart from others. I choose to employ charcoals and water-based media both in my studio and en plein air. Materials that are dark, explosive and often unpredictable in nature suit the hands-on, intuitive physicality of my aesthetic process as I allow the images to compose themselves and form their own narrative. Using well-worn brushes, rags, painting knives and the critical rawness of my bare fingers I push the pigments onto canvas or rough-hewn paper or I mould a lump of clay into, something. Any tool or medium will do. So long as the result concurs with what I see within my mind's eye. For more information on commissions; drawing workshops; demonstrations and the current availibility of artworks: ---- https://seqrodriguez.blogspot.com