Sean Foley

黑料不打烊

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American | 1969

Sean Foley is an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1969. Numerous key galleries and museums such as DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park have featured Sean Foley's work in the past.Sean Foley's work has been offered at auction multiple times. Among the artist's sold works is "Scrimmage (2005)", which realized 9,600 USD at Barridoff Galleries in 2012Sean Foley has been featured in articles for and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in April 2009.

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Charlatan

By Sean Foley

Scrimmage (2005)

By Sean Foley

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Totem

By Sean Foley

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Charlatan

By Sean Foley

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Scrimmage (2005)

By Sean Foley

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Past Exhibitions

Sean Foley: Paintings and Drawings

Jadite Galleries

Midtown | New York | USA

10 Jun, 2009 - 27 Jun, 2009

Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder

MASS MoCA

North Adams | Massachusetts | USA

28 May, 2016 - 17 Mar, 2017

Overgrowth

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park

Lincoln | Massachusetts | USA

01 Apr, 2016 - 18 Sep, 2016

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Articles

2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial Prize Winners

ArtDaily 19 Apr, 2009

PORTLAND, ME.- At the members鈥� opening reception for the 2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial on Tuesday evening, April 7, four prizes were awarded

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Saatchi Online 10 Apr, 2009

IRAQI STUDENTS MAKE ART OUT OF WEAPONS In a display of industrial war art in Baghdad's green zone, a sculpture of a fish is made out of bullet

2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial Opens in Maine

ArtDaily 08 Apr, 2009

PORTLAND, ME.- This April the Portland Museum of Art will feature 17 artists whose work has been selected for the 2009 Portland Museum of Art

Coverage

鈥� ..Foley's practice stems from painting but expands the medium beyond traditional definitions pushing it off the canvas and onto the wall -- beyond figure and beyond abstraction into a kind of battle between... 鈥�
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MASS MoCA

鈥� ..Foley's imagery explodes from his paintings into the realm of installation where he depicts the monstrous as shrouded in bright candy colors, hiding its true nature much in the way that carnivalesque imagery... 鈥�
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MASS MoCA

鈥� ..Foley states: "I seek to lure the audience with a formal color, shape, scale, which introduce more questions and provoke their imaginations... 鈥�
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MASS MoCA

鈥� ..Foley's monsters represent life, which in itself exists as a continuous cultural camouflage from Fox News to images of wartime and depression... 鈥�
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MASS MoCA

鈥� ..The view of this space is further compounded by an adjacent wall of small paned windows which will also add to the fragmented aspect of Foley's work.This distortion serves as a kind of camouflage, what... 鈥�
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MASS MoCA