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Sean Wrenn

Brooklyn, United States

My studio process focuses on transforming recorded moments into immersive photomontage landscapes th...

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Sean Wrenn

Joined In 2011

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About the artist

Sean Wrenn

Joined In 2011

(8 Followers)

ABOUT
EDUCATION

My studio process focuses on transforming recorded moments into immersive photomontage landscapes though diligent creative practices including: daily photographic shooting, printing, color copying, layout, and hand assembling of image bits via a wet décollage technique (with acrylic medium on various substrates). My hand assembled photomontages respond to (and draw visual information from) the unfolding conversations of urban architectures. The intricate torn patterns of my photomontage planes mimic decaying street posters using rich original photographic content, color patterning, and expanding visual fields to craft optical experience with striking visual symbolisms. As in my interdisciplinary installation projects, the photomontage planes suggest existence as "artifact" from an implied "near-future." Therefore, the aesthetic experience references the geological strata of deep history within our accelerated contemporary senses of past/present/future - as influenced by imaging technologies and digital proliferation.

I am intrigued by the progression of photographic technologies and cognitive and material "sequencings of experience." These philosophic interests guide my process of creating time/space-layered photomontages, a...

2008

Master of Fine Arts, Graduate Fellowship, Commencement Speaker
Maryland Institute College of Art, Mount Royal School of Art

2002

Bachelor of Science, University Scholar, cum laude
New York University, Steinhardt School of Education, Studio Art Major