Sean Landers

  • Sean Landers, Notes to Self, 2023

    Sean Landers

    Notes to Self, 2023
    Oil on linen
    116.8 x 152.4 cm
    46 x 60 inches
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  • Text takes on a significant role in the work of Sean Landers, as is evident in Notes to Self, where a golden retriever is set against the ominous nocturnal background of a birch forest. Etched into the trunks of the trees are seemingly personal notes, as though taken from the artist's journal or diary.
  • Installation view: Sean Lander, Adrift, Petzel Gallery, New York, 2023
    Installation view: Sean Lander, Adrift, Petzel Gallery, New York, 2023

  • Dogs – depicted in single portraits and alone in rowboats unmoored at sea; lighthouses; the ocean; and sperm whale skeletons at rest on ocean shorelines. Each subject represents the dichotomy of freedom and trepidation involved in the act of releasing art to an unknown fate. ...A bit of the artist remains in their paintings, so in that way, a painting is like an artist adrift in time and space, says Landers.

  • Sean Landers’ solo exhibition Animal Kingdom will open on October 16, 2023 at Le Musée de la Chasse et de...

    Sean Landers’ solo exhibition Animal Kingdom will open on October 16, 2023 at Le Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris.

     

    Featuring some thirty portraits of animals and the natural world that are semiotic yet sensory, the body of work on view negotiates the tenuous relationship between image and text. Featuring both selected and new works, including three animal portraits created especially for the Musée de la Chasse, Landers’ paintings and sculptures will be staged amongst the museum’s collections on all floors. Curated by director Christine Germain-Donnat, an 80-page full color catalogue published by LIENART with text by Frédéric Paul will also accompany the exhibition.

     

    Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature

  • Sean Landers

    Sean Landers

    Born 1962 in Palmer, MA

    Lives and works in New York

     

    Sean Landers’ work spans a wide breadth of subjects. Across all mediums, his oeuvre provides a visualization of thoughts – executed in a humorous and confessional way, it blurs the lines between reality and fantasy, between fact and fiction.

     

    Landers’ early work originated in his writing, which he then turned into drawings and paintings where the text became the image. This confessional, autobiographical thread runs throughout his practice, as he experiments with a variety of subjects and themes. Landers’ references are often art historical.

     

    Sean Landers’ work has been shown extensively for over three decades, his solo and group exhibitions include among others Le Consortium, Dijon; Petzel, New York; Kunsthalle Zürich; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Musée Magritte, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; New Museum, New York; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Serpentine Gallery, London; MoMA PS1, New York. His work is in public collections worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Tate Modern, London; Des Moines Art Center; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart among others.