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Email PageNew 65 Inch Paintings and Then Some
October 7, 2006- November 4, 2006
Reception: October 7, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Sean Ward
Rare
521 W 26th StSean Ward, like most scavengers, keeps one eye on the forgotten and the other one on the forgettable. For the past decade, he has been sifting his way through the contemporary landscape, singling out images not for posterity, but because they have reached him and perhaps have expressed the sadness a thing emits when abandoned or thrown to the wolves. Often his inspiration for a painting is derived by images he finds in tossed aside fliers, pamphlets and mail-order catalogs – stuff of the lowest common denominator.
To hear Ward describe his thought process is to have any number of conventions subverted. He is not addressing our nation’s energy consumption or slandering television for every social malady under the sun. His paintings do not debate the pitfalls of image appropriation or condemn the current administration. And yet, because they exist in close parallel with those concerns, they leave themselves open to broader interpretation.
To grasp Ward’s enigmatic sense of process, and to what end it is being applied, it may be beneficial to suggest a more discreet inroad. If there is a common theme among these remarkable, mysterious paintings, it could very well be Ward’s intuition with regard to what makes a painting sufficiently open-ended to invite speculation. It is this intuition that he unswervingly follows as fully as the Surrealists did their unconscious.
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